Here is more about the Game from a press release:
Participants in the inaugural PeaceGame will begin with a discussion of potential scenarios for peace in Syria and the steps and conditions necessary to achieve it. Throughout the day and a half-long Game, participants will assume roles representing different stakeholders in the Syrian war. They will explore four scenarios representing different phases of a peace process: Achieving a Near-Term Political Solution; Pacification; Transformation and Institutionalization; and Stabilization.The event, scheduled for December 9 and 10, is being webcast live here. Here is a detailed agenda for the Game, which is open to credentialed press.
Here are the participants:
- Peter Ackerman
- Henri Barkey
- Esther Brimmer
- Daniel Brumberg
- Ambassador Maura Connelly
- Paula Dobriansky
- Andrew Exum
- Nelson Ford
- Ambassador Edward “Skip” Gnehm
- Karen House
- Lise Howard
- Steven Heydemann
- Ambassador James Jeffrey
- Murhaf Jouejati
- Ambassador Ted Kattouf
- Mark Katz
- Kemal Kirisci
- Steven Koltai
- Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer
- George Lopez
- Kristin Lord
- Colum Lynch
- Firas Maksad
- Robert Malley
- Sharon Morris
- Robert Mosbacher, Jr.
- Ambassador George Moose
- Mouaz Moustafa
- Manal Omar
- Carina Perelli
- Kenneth Pollack
- Ambassador Mitchell Reiss
- David Rothkopf
- Paul Saunders
- Mark Schneider
- Jeremy Shapiro
- Randa Slim
- Julianne Smith
- Andrew Tabler
- Ambassador William B. Taylor
- James Traub
- Casimir Yost
USIP says that this event launches a twice-yearly, global joint-planning exercise to bring together principals from public and private sectors to game out alternative futures for some of the world's most volatile and important regions.
Here is a Foreign Policy article on the simulation titled "What Does War Gaming for Peace Look Like."
In related news, USIP has conducted the first in a series of "PeaceTech Camps" in Iraq, an initiative that connects technologists who are skilled at low-cost, easy-to-use technologies with civil society organizations that work on a range of problems within Iraq.
USIP was recently ranked as the 18th best think tank in the US by the University of Pennsylvania annual think tank rankings.
