{"id":9630,"date":"2010-04-14T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=9630"},"modified":"2010-04-14T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:35:55","slug":"so-you-think-you-can-bring-peace-to-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/04\/so-you-think-you-can-bring-peace-to-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Think You Can Bring Peace to the Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve never used a computer game in my teaching, but Andrea Schneider <\/a>and Kathleen Goodrich ‘o8 make a good case that the game PeaceMaker has a lot to teach dispute resolution students.\u00a0 The game puts players into the position of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President, with an opportunity to achieve peace and win a Nobel Prize or fail and lose office.\u00a0 Andrea and Kathleen describe how the game can be used to teach principles of dispute resolution in a new paper entitled “The Classroom Can Be All Fun & Games.”\u00a0 Their paper, which is available on SSRN here<\/a>,\u00a0was recently published at 25 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 87.\u00a0 The abstract appears after the jump.\u00a0 Do readers have any other suggestions for computer games that can be usefully incorporated into law-school teaching?<\/p>\n

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Different areas of study have developed \u201cserious games\u201d, videogames with a message beyond pure entertainment, to test the application of differing frameworks to particular problems. The video game PeaceMaker, created by ImpactGames, simulates the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and allows the participants to take on the role of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President. This simulation can be used as a teaching mechanism that allows students to gain hands-on experience in applying several dispute resolution concepts as they work toward achieving peace and winning the game. This article discusses the use of serious gaming in education and specifically the use of PeaceMaker to study theories and practices of conflict resolution. The article describes the PeaceMaker\u2019s overall structure, function, and applicability in the classroom, as well as the theories and concepts of international conflict resolution that can be taught through its use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve never used a computer game in my teaching, but Andrea Schneider and Kathleen Goodrich ‘o8 make a good case that the game PeaceMaker has a lot to teach dispute resolution students.\u00a0 The game puts players into the position of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President, with an opportunity to achieve peace 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