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A Force More Powerful:

The Game of Nonviolent Strategy

 

A Force More Powerful is a computer game: it is also a tool for you to learn the value of, and enhance, your capacity for, strategic thinking in nonviolent conflict. Hence it emphasizes assessing the overall political, social, economic and military situation in detail, selecting and prioritizing objectives, planning the appropriate strategy and tactics to achieve those objectives, and reacting appropriately to the actions of one's adversary. The better your planning is, the more successful your stategy will be.

A simulation game allowing the player to wage nonviolent struggles for freedom and rights - against dictators, occupiers, authoritarians, and oppressive rule. The player takes the role of strategist for a nonviolent movement in one of ten scenarios. The player accesses strengths and vulnerabilities, crafts strategy, and chooses tactics such as strikes, boycotts and protests.

Also see the book, A Force More Powerful as well as the video series

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English • Junior High-Adult

York Zimmerman • 2006

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