EPSD GAME ORIENTATIONBENGALURU, 18 SEPTEMBER

2014

Three Pillars of Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development is not limited to Environmental concerns, but includes Social and Economical aspects. Add a description

WHY GAMES?

Transcend national boundaries and other limitations A dynamic language of international

communication Active engagement with people across diversities Potential to benchmarks innovation in ICT

edutainment An exciting Challenge to bring together elements

of recreational Gaming- Learning- and real issues of Peace & Sustainablity

ELEMENTS OF THE GAME• Dynamic interplay between components peace and

Sustainable Development

• Encourage Multiple play format

• International in flavour yet rooted in diverse local realities

• Collaborative problem-solving versus self-centred actions

• Use Scenario building, Role Playing

• Balancing reality and virtual reality

• Dynamic and scope of incorporating local and contextual information

THEMATIC ELEMENTS ON PEACE AND SUSTAINABILITY

• Energy- Non-renewable• Individual choices- greed and consumerism, buying more, lifestyle

choices, • Impact of energy usage and climate change (substantiate)

• Energy- Renewable • Reliance on Nuclear power• Threat of nuclear war - threat of nuclear war/annihilation versus

conventional weapons war

• Climate change and shifting weather pattern

• Role of Natural disasters- floods, drought, earthquake, tsunami• The threat it poses to humans, how it affects conflict- both

constructive and destructive aspects

THEMATIC ELEMENTS OF PEACE AND SD CONTD.

• Armed Conflict between countries, or civil war within the country between the military and the insurgents• Issues of Refugees, IDPs, settlement camps, lack of basic amenities

like food, medicine, shelter, hygiene, education, rape and violence against women

• Role of Information and Communication technology in fuelling or pacifying conflict

• Human Rights violations versus protection of human rights

HIGHLIGHTS• Interconnectedness & Interdependece

• Local –Global-Local

• Individual-collective/ societal

• Systems Dynamics complexity

• Local and global governance

• Zero sum versus collaborative outcomes

• Global Citizenship?

WHATS IN IT FOR YOU, IF YOUR PROTOTYPE GETS SELECTEDSupport in Funding

International reach

Used as a pilot informal learning tool on Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

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