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Recent Posts
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- Sepinsky: Rigorous wargames vs effective wargaming
- Connections: on the power of empathy
- IDA endorses the Derby House Principles on diversity and inclusion in professional wargaming
- But we donât treat women or minorities any different here!
- Wong and Heath: Is the (US) Department of Defense making enough progress in wargaming?
- Army University wargaming tournament, 15 March
- Simulation and gaming publications, January-February 2021
- Simulation and gaming miscellany, 14 February 2021
- Liberating Mosul (solo edition)
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- Government Matters: Wong on wargaming at the Department of Defense
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- Derby House Principles
- Sepinsky: Wargaming as an analytic tool
- AFTERSHOCK
- Sepinsky: Rigorous wargames vs effective wargaming
- Connections: on the power of empathy
- But we donât treat women or minorities any different here!
- Teaching international relations through popular games, culture and simulations (Part 1)
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Active Learning in Political Science
- Hello again 23/02/2021
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Ludic Futurism
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Wargaming Connections
- Dragoons Assembly 2020 convention 30/06/2020
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Journals & Periodicals
- Battles Magazine
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Web Resources: fragile and conflict-affected countries
- Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation
- Current Intelligence
- International Alert
- International Peace Institute
- OECD DACâDevelopment Effectiveness in Fragile States
- PRIO (International Peace Research Institute)
- Small Wars Journal
- UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
- UN Peacekeeping Resource Hub
- UNDPâCrisis Prevention and Recovery
- US ArmyâPeacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
- World BankâConflict and Development blog
- World BankâFragile and Conflict-Affected Countries
- World BankâWorld Development Report 2011
Web Resources: games and simulation
- Active Learning in Political Science
- Barnard CollegeâReacting to the Past
- Best Delegate
- Beyond IntractabilityâExercises and Simulations
- BoardGameGeek
- ChangeGamer
- Class Wargames
- Columbia American History Onlineâclassroom simulations
- Community Organizing Toolkitâgame
- Connections Australia
- ConSimWorld
- CRISP: Crisis Simulation for Peace
- CUNY Games Network
- Darfur is Dyingâgame
- Economics Networkâclassroom experiments and games
- Emergency Capacity Building project â simulation resources
- EuroWarGames
- Fletcher School/Tufts UniversityâSIMULEX
- Game Design Concepts
- Game Theory .net
- Gameful
- Games & Social Networks in Education
- Games for Change
- Games for Educators
- 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
- Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
- Kings College LondonâConflict Simulation
- Little Wars
- Ludic Futurism
- Ludology
- McGill Model UN
- McGill UniversityâBrynania simulation
- Mike Cosgroveâwargame design class
- MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Programâsimulation materials
- MODSIM World conference
- MORS Wargaming Community of Practice
- MSSV
- MUNmatters
- National Center for Simulation
- National Security Decision-Making game
- Naval Postgraduate SchoolâMOVES Institute
- NDUâCenter for Applied Strategic Learning
- No Game Survives…
- North American Simulation and Gaming Association
- Oil Shockwave Simulation
- Pax Warrior
- Pervasive Games: Theory and Design
- Play the Past
- Play Think Learn
- Purple Pawn
- Reality is Broken
- Red Team Journal
- SAGSET
- Serious Games at Work
- Serious Games Network France
- Simulations Interactivity Standards Organization
- 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
- United States Institute for PeaceâSimulations
- University of MarylandâICONS Project
- University of Michigan ICS: Arab-Israeli Conflict Simulation
- US ArmyâModelling and Simulation
- USCâInstitute for Creative Technologies
- Utrecht Institute for Crisis and Conflict Simulation
- Wargame_[space]
- Wargaming Connection
- Web Grognards
- World BankâEduTech
- World Peace Game Foundation
- Zones of Influence
Web Resources: games and simulation (commercial)
- Booz Allen Hamiltonâwargames and exercises
- BreakAwayâserious games
- Brian Train-game designs
- Civic Mirror
- ConSimWorld
- Decisive Point
- Fabulsiâonline roleplay simulations
- Fiery Dragon Productions
- GamePolitics
- LECMgt
- MCS Group
- MegaGame Makers
- Military Training & Simulation
- Peacemaker Game
- Persuasive Games
- PlanPolitik
- RAND Center for Gaming
- Sea Change Simulations
- Serious Games Interactive
- Statecraft
- Strategy and Tactics Press
- Track4
- Wikistrat blog
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