CRISP - Crisis Simulation for Peace e. V. – facilitates seminars and trainings dealing with conflict management and political participation. With the use of simulation games enirched by role-play elements CRISP aims for a self organizing, holistic, and highly hands-on learning culture. With Simulation Gaming we are targeting mainly young people in civil society interested in experience-based learning.
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The overall goal is to pass on the described method to possible multiplicators. By participating one is not only gaining on personal level, but gets the abilities, to pass on the method effectively. By this the seminars follows the train-the-trainers-concept. The seminar should also promote capacity-building by bringing people from different regions and working fields together working on a common project.
We are planning to conduct a conflict-simulation (simulation-game) with participants from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. The simulation will be embedded in a 5 day Seminar, including Preparation and Evaluation. The simulation offers an excellent chance for a change of perspective and thereby increases the participant's understanding of the simulated conflict. All participants will slip into the role of one of the main stakeholders of the conflict and try to enforce his/her interests and to achieve his/her goals. Through the simulation political processes and dynamics can be experienced by this the participants get a chance to develop personal, alternative models of explanation for the progress of conflict. Accordingly the Seminar facilitates active learning and constitutes an extension to prevail cognitive acquirement of knowledge.