CIRCA:Virtual Peace

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"game environments designed to train US Special Forces and repurpose them for training workers in the field of peace and conflict resolution." [http://virtualpeace.org/whitepaper.php]
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Revision as of 18:11, 22 October 2011

Virtual Peace is a serious educational game created by

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Purpose

"game environments designed to train US Special Forces and repurpose them for training workers in the field of peace and conflict resolution." [1]

Funding

Virtual Peace is funded by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory [2]. | Plantronics contributed 50 headsets to the Virtual Peace project.


Technology

Virtual Peace is based on America's Army, a game created for the US army by Virtual Heroes INC[3].

Audience

Implications

Games as education

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