Daesh Beyond the Levant Symposium
Monday, November 30, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
National Defense University
Washington, DC
Project Gray Contact:
John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center
The Army's Special Operations Center of Excellence
910-396-9394
pao_swcs@soc.mil
The Daesh Beyond the Levant Symposium, is the inaugural event for Project Gray.
This symposium will bring together scholars, research institutes, practitioners and other interested parties to discuss Daesh Beyond the Levant.
About Project Gray
Project Gray is a collaborative study of the Gray Zone - the space between war and peace - where competitive interactions that fall short of a formal state of war, and which are characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty about relevant policy and legal frameworks, are undertaken by state and non-state actors.
Conventional military responses by the Department of Defense lie outside the spectrum of appropriate responses for Gray Zone challenges. To address these conflicts, we must evolve our organization, intellectual and institutional models to operate successfully in the Gray Zone.
Through a series of events with academic, government and military partners and other interested parties, Project Gray will enable us to analyze regional and trans-national conflicts, find solutions and develop best practices to operate in the middle ground between war and peace.
The Daesh Beyond the Levant Symposium is the inaugural event in this study, which also includes other events, publications and ongoing conversations. The Nov. 30 event, hosted by the National Defense University at Fort McNair in the National Capitol Region, will focus on one specific geographic Gray Zone challenge. It is our hope that the information shared and understanding gained can be used across geographic lines in response to similar challenges.