Serious Games for Social Change
A Force More Powerful™ Experimentation and Training Tool for Socio-Political Change
While living in a virtual world controlled by a repressive dictator, your goal is to orchestrate a nonviolent resistance campaign from the ground up. You are supported by the principles and experiences of some of the world's leading nonviolent activists such as Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the experts behind A Force More Powerful itself- the students who successfully overthrew Milosevic in Serbia. To accomplish this you must assemble a team, build public support, and then recognize and gradually influence the pillars of support within the regime to bring about enduring social change.
Client: International Center for Non-Violent Conflict
Objective:
Develop a game that trains activists with the planning and rehearsal skills needed to successfully stage a non-violent resistance movement for political and societal change.
Solution:
Training tool that uses a game format and a proven military planning approach to teach users how to organize and carry out a campaign of non-violent resistance.
Technology:
Interest group theory, societal networks and cultural models, economic and critical infrastructure modeling.
I’ve been saying all my life that games have the power to change the world. We’re proving that every day at BreakAway.
: Doug Whatley, Founder and CEO
What if You Could...
Model social, political, and economic conditions in repressive regimes and give players planning and training tools to stage a campaign of non-violent resistance?
BreakAway made it happen »
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