Can a Video Game Spark a Movement?

In less than two weeks, the video game "A Force More Powerful" will be released:

A unique collaboration of experts on nonviolent conflict working with veteran game designers has developed a simulation game that teaches the strategy of nonviolent conflict. A dozen scenarios, inspired by recent history, include conflicts against dictators, occupiers, colonizers, and corrupt regimes, as well as struggles to secure the political and human rights of ethnic and racial minorities and women.

A Force More Powerful is the first and only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists and leaders of nonviolent resistance and opposition movements, the game will also educate the media and general public on the potential of nonviolent action and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistance.

The civil rights struggle, of course, is no game. But simulations can only help strategic planning. The development of this game is just the latest sign that civil rights activists have more tools at their disposal than any time in history.

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[Jane]

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