The NONVIOLENT Strategy Game

The debate has been going on for years: are computer games merely entertainment or can they actually teach skills that address some of contemporary society's most pressing problems?

A three-year collaboration between experts on nonviolent conflict and veteran game designers has finally produced the answer: a simulation game that teaches the strategy of nonviolent conflict. For practice, A Force More Powerful - the Game of Nonviolent Strategy (AFMP) offers its players ten scenarios, inspired by recent history, including conflicts against dictators, occupiers, colonizers, and corrupt regimes; and struggles to secure the political and human rights of ethnic and racial minorities and women.

AFMP is the first and only game to teach the methods of influencing or changing the political environment 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 game is available on CD-ROM for PC users at the price of $9.98 plus shipping and handling. Click here for more information on how to order.

A FORCE MORE POWERFUL is a co-production of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and York Zimmerman Inc., in association with Breakaway Games Ltd.

Consultants include Dr. Peter Ackerman, ICNC chairman and leading authority on nonviolent conflict. The project has also been advised by veterans of recent nonviolent campaigns, including Ivan Marovic of Otpor, the Serbian resistance movement which played a critical role in ousting Slobodan Milosevic. AFMP project supervisor is Steve York, whose prize-winning films on nonviolent conflict have been translated into ten languages and broadcast around the world.

For more information about the game, visit www.aforcemorepowerful.org or contact afmp@yorkzim.com.