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Defense Linguistic Simulations
- Professional Development, selon Sabin 01/05/2017
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Games Without Frontiers
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Grog News
- Full Text of TSJ's Article "Firmer Ground" on COIN 15/02/2016
- Anniversary: The Gettysburg Address 19/11/2015
Guns, Dice, Butter
- Guns, Dice, Butter XXV Easter 2016 27/03/2016
- Episode XXV Preview: Adrian Goldsworthy and Others 20/03/2016
Ludic Futurism
- 4Box system: series video review 23/04/2018
- Chile ’73: The Most Dangerous (War)game 11/04/2018
Play the Past
- Videogames and Memory 20/03/2018
- History’s Creed: Episodes 6 to 10 06/03/2018
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- Sciences du jeu
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Web Resources: fragile and conflict-affected countries
- Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation
- Current Intelligence
- International Alert
- International Peace Institute
- OECD DAC—Conflict and Peace
- OECD DAC—Development Effectiveness in Fragile States
- PRIO (International Peace Research Institute)
- Small Wars Journal
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- UNDP—Crisis Prevention and Recovery
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- World Bank—Conflict and Development blog
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- World Bank—World Development Report 2011
Web Resources: games and simulation
- A Force More Powerful—game
- A Horse of Peas
- Acrasian Security Blog
- Active Learning in Political Science
- Against All Odds—game
- Air War College—wargames, simulations, and exercises
- APSA—simulations for teaching political science
- Barnard College—Reacting to the Past
- Best Delegate
- Beyond Intractability—Exercises and Simulations
- BoardGameGeek
- ChangeGamer
- Class Wargames
- Columbia American History Online—classroom simulations
- Community Organizing Toolkit—game
- Connections Australia
- ConSimWorld
- CRISP: Crisis Simulation for Peace
- CUNY Games Network
- Darfur is Dying—game
- Economics Network—classroom experiments and games
- Emergency Capacity Building project — simulation resources
- Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds
- Fletcher School/Tufts University—SIMULEX
- Game Design Concepts
- Game Theory .net
- Gameful
- Gameology
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- Games & Social Networks in Education
- Games for Change
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- Games Without Frontiers
- GeoGame
- Giant Battling Robots
- Global Justice Game
- Grog News
- Guns, Dice, Butter
- History of Wargaming Project
- Ian Bogost
- ICT for Peacebuilding
- International Game Developers Association
- International Simulation & Gaming Association
- Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
- Kings College London—Conflict Simulation
- Little Wars
- Ludic Futurism
- Ludology
- Macquarrie University—Middle East politics simulation
- McGill Model UN
- McGill University—Brynania simulation
- Mike Cosgrove—wargame design class
- MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program—simulation materials
- Model UN Headquarters
- MODSIM World conference
- MORS Wargaming Community of Practice
- MSSV
- MUNmatters
- National Center for Simulation
- National Security Decision-Making Game
- National Security Decision-Making game
- Naval Postgraduate School—MOVES Institute
- NDU—Center for Applied Strategic Learning
- Negotiation-Based Learning
- News Games
- North American Simulation and Gaming Association
- Oil Shockwave Simulation
- Open Simulations Platform
- Pax Warrior
- Peacekeeping the Game
- Pearson Peacekeeping Training Centre—exercises and simulations
- Pervasive Games: Theory and Design
- Play the Past
- Play Think Learn
- Public International Law and Policy Group—Negotiation Simulation Exercises
- Purple Pawn
- Reality is Broken
- Red Team Journal
- SAGSET
- Santa Clara University—Conflict Resolution Simulation
- Serious Games at Work
- Serious Games Institute
- Simulations Interactivity Standards Organization
- Social Impact Games
- Strategikon (French)
- Technoculture, Art, and Games
- Terra Nova (Simulation + Society + Play)
- The Cove: Wargaming
- The Ludologist
- The Open-Ended Machine
- Tiltfactor
- Tom Mouat's wargames page
- Trans-Atlantic Consortium for European Union Studies & Simulations
- UN Association USA—model UNs
- University of Maryland – Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics
- University of Maryland—ICONS Project
- University of Michigan ICS: Arab-Israeli Conflict Simulation
- US Army Combined Arms Center—Military Gaming Blog
- US Army—Modelling and Simulation
- US DoD—Games Developers' Community
- US DoD—Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office
- US DoD—Modeling and Simulation Information Analysis Center
- US Military Academy – Warfighting Simulation Center
- USC—Institute for Creative Technologies
- USIP—Training and Education Center
- Virtual Peace
- Virtual Worlds Research Consortium
- Wargame_[space]
- Wargaming Connection
- Web Grognards
- World Bank—EduTech
- World Peace Game Foundation
- Zones of Influence
Web Resources: games and simulation (commercial)
- Booz Allen Hamilton—wargames and exercises
- BreakAway—serious games
- Brian Train-game designs
- Civic Mirror
- Consequences Consulting—peacekeeping simulation
- ConSimWorld
- Decisive Point
- Defense Linguistics
- Fabulsi—online roleplay simulations
- Fiery Dragon Productions
- GamePolitics
- MCS Group
- MegaGame Makers
- Military Training & Simulation
- mōsbē
- Peacemaker Game
- Persuasive Games
- PlanPolitik
- Potomac Foundation: Hegemon simulation
- RAND Center for Gaming
- Sea Change Simulations
- Serious Games Interactive
- Statecraft
- Strategy and Tactics Press
- Track4
- Two-Stone LLC
- Wikistrat blog
Sure, sure, they’ll put them in the back of the manual, after the warranty and guarantee micro-text, where they will be sure to be read….