What is Peace Game Program?

The Global Peace Game is an interactive educational game for adolescents based on simulating reality activities. The game is based on adolescents playing roles within imaginary countries and organizations that work together to solve global problems, in a way that stimulates the adolescents’s imagination and works on understanding local and global citizenship, mediation and negotiation mechanisms, decision-making skills and dealing with crises.

Target Group:

Adolescents in the age group of 12-18.

Program Journey:

• In the peace game and within an educational, stimulating and safe dialogue environment, adolescents learn problem-solving skills, think about the future consequences and aftermaths of violent choices, deal with and experience the results of peaceful and violent solutions.
• Adolescents in the peace game understand the socio-economic and environmental systems and form their own decisions and opinions about them.
• Adolescents live in the game of peace, an atmosphere that stimulates cooperative solutions and joint action, and the principle of success is a shared responsibility.

Program Expected Outcomes:

• Adolescents test skills to understand and analyze reality, and use critical thinking and research skills.
• Adolescents work according to communication, negotiation and dialogue skills.
• Adolescents understand how to invest available resources in dealing with crises and respond to them with non-violent and sustainable solutions.