Devoted teacher, John Hunter found a way to allow students to resolve military conflicts and economic crisis in a classroom setting. Hunter's The World Peace Game has "the goal to extricate each country from dangerous circumstances and achieve global prosperity with the least amount of military intervention." Students play on teams that represent different nations.
Children must wade through highly charged philosophical issues, identify ambiguity and bias in the information they receive. They have to learn to understand what provokes antagonism and how to successfully deal with powerful enemies. Effective collaboration and refined communication becomes a skill for students navigating their way through the game.
The World Peace Game Foundation aims to help develop self-awareness in children and elevate their concept of world citizen:
The Foundation seeks to foster the concept of peace not as a utopian dream but as an attainable goal to strive for, and to stimulate the creative development of tools for this effort. It supports development of collaboration and communication skills for resolving and transforming conflicts, and the development of the skills of compromise, all while accommodating different perspectives and interests.You can find out more about the Foundation's projects by visiting their website.
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