Virtual Peace

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Virtual Peace "the humanitarian assistance trainingsimulator" is multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) createdthrough collaboration between "Virtual Heroes (a Durham,NC-based developer of game-based training and learningenvironments), the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Peaceand Conflict Resolution, the Duke Computer Science Department, andthe Program for Information Science + Information in Society atDuke." [1].

Contents 1Purpose 2Funding 3Technology 4Audience 5Implications

Purpose

Virtual Peace's primary objective is to to take "gameenvironments designed to train US Special Forces and repurpose themfor training workers in the field of peace and conflictresolution." [2], hence its secondary byline "turning swords to ploughshares".

Funding

Virtual Peace received a $238,000 innovation award from the 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, a top of the line game engine used primarily for the creation of first person shooter (FPS) games. Virtual Peace is thus built on

Audience

Implications

Games as education