CFP reminder: Simulations and Gaming to Build Peace

A reminder to everyone who might be interested in contributing to the forthcoming special issue of Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research on “Simulations and Gaming to Build Peace” that the deadline for proposals (March 31) is fast approaching.

As for those who have already submitted something, you should be hearing from us in early April.

CFP: Red Teaming, Red Cells and Analytical Decision Support

This may be of interest to some PaxSims readers:

Call for Abstracts

As part of a government funded research project on Red Teaming, Red Cells and Analytical Decision Support, the Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society (CSAS) of the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) will contract for a number of papers of 1500 to 5000 words. Authors of selected abstracts will receive 1000$ (Canadian) upon delivery of an acceptable paper. Papers will subsequently be edited for publication in journals. Abstracts must be received by February 23, 2011. Papers must be submitted by March 23, 2011.

Papers may address any of the following:

• Red Teaming experiences
• Red Teaming tools
• Red Teaming best practices
• Red Teaming in International Relations
• Red Teaming in security policy
• Challenge function in security decision making
• Alternative Analysis
• Alternative Perspectives
• Red Cell operations
• Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for employment of Red Cells and Red Teams
• Interdisciplinary Red Teams
• Coordination of Red Team activities across department or agency boundaries
• Recruitment, selection, training and development of Red Teams
• Mimetic and Digetic Red Teaming
• Adapting private sector practices to security sector Red Teaming
• Questioning assumptions: limits and constraints of Red Teaming
• Necessity for Red Teams
• Devil’s Advocacy and contrarian techniques in Red Teaming
• Structured analytical techniques for Red Teaming
• Developing imaginative thinking in Red Teams and Red Cells
• Thinking techniques for Red Teaming

For further information please contact Will Chalmers at 613-541-6000 extension 6494 at the Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society. Please submit abstracts to William.Chalmers@rmc.ca.

Call for papers: Special issue of S&G on “Simulations and Gaming to Build Peace”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Simulations and Gaming to Build Peace

for a special issue of

Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research

(http://sg.sagepub.com)

Guest Editors:

Rex Brynen, 
Department of Political Science, McGill University
Gary Milante, Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group, World Bank

Simulation has often been used for training and planning armed conflict. However, it can also be used to address and illuminate transitions from conflict to domestic and international peace.

This symposium (special issue) of Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research will examine the various ways in which simulation and serious games can be used to enrich instructional curricula, train practitioners, promote conflict resolution, and generate theoretical and practical insight into processes of war-to-peace transition. We invite submissions from multiple disciplines, perspectives, and methodological or pedagogical approaches. Theoretical reflections, rigorous and critical evaluation of simulation exercises, literature reviews, and conceptual contributions are all welcomed. The topics that might be addressed could include preventive diplomacy; crisis management and de-escalation; conflict resolution; peace negotiations; counterinsurgency, stabilization, humanitarian intervention and peace operations; refugees; ethnic conflict; humanitarian operations; aid, budgetary planning, and post-conflict reconstruction; conflict-sensitive planning; interagency, civil-military, and coalition cooperation; human rights and election monitoring; media coverage, awareness and advocacy—among others.

Interested authors are invited to submit by an abstract (not exceeding 500 words) of their proposed work for initial review, together with a brief CV on or before March 30, 2011. Accepted proposals will then be asked to submit a full paper by July 31.

For further information, or to submit a proposal, please contact Rex Brynen at rex.brynen@mcgill.ca.

Please distribute this CFP widely. For a .pdf copy, click here