The State Department‘s newly-established Global Engagement Center wants to create a global network of third party partners to support its messaging campaign against the Islamic State militant organization, C4ISR & Networks reported Monday.Meagen LaGraffe, chief of staff to the coordinator and special envoy of the GEC, told a New America Foundation event Thursday that GEC has veered from its previous direct engagement approach “to focus more on partner driven content and credible third party voices,” Mark Pomerleau reported.
“The approach we’re taking to build a network of credible third party voices all across the world in regions that span the globe and also sort of transregionally functional partnerships so that we can cultivate and build not only themes and messages but also consistent messengers for anti-[Islamic State group] narratives,” said LaGraffe.
LaGraffe further said GEC coordinates its efforts with the Defense Department including the work of the Cyber Command which is tasked to interrupt the IS group’s cyber operations.
