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Virtual Peace is a serious educational game created by
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Virtual Peace is a serious educational game created through collaboration between "Virtual Heroes (a Durham, NC-based developer of game-based training and learning environments), the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Duke Computer Science Department, and the Program for Information Science + Information in Society at Duke." [http://virtualpeace.org/whitepaper.php]
==Purpose==
==Purpose==

Revision as of 18:17, 22 October 2011

Virtual Peace is a serious educational game created through collaboration between "Virtual Heroes (a Durham, NC-based developer of game-based training and learning environments), the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Duke Computer Science Department, and the Program for Information Science + Information in Society at Duke." [1]

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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." [2]

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 [3]. | 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[4]. America's Army itself is built on the | Unreal engine.

Audience

Implications

Games as education

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