An Innovative Approach to Managing International Crises
An immersive engagement that challenges world leaders to game out practicable solutions and collaborative strategies to de-escalate complex crises, strengthen peace and security, and invest in resilience.
About FP PeaceGames & Simulations
FP Analytics applies its rigorous research capabilities to the ideation and production of scenario-based crisis simulations that facilitate innovative thinking to help meet partners’ diplomatic, strategic, or business objectives.
FP’s Simulations and PeaceGames convene leading minds in national security policy, international affairs, academia, business and industry, and civil society to "game" out pathways to more effectively mitigate and collaboratively manage complex and cross-border risks. Simulations are held in person as well as on a bespoke virtual platform that enables participation from around the world. They can be closed-door or produced as part of a public forum.
Each year Foreign Policy convenes leading minds in national security policy, international affairs, academia, business, and civil society to "game" out how to bring seemingly intractable conflicts to a peaceful conclusion. This exercise, which we call PeaceGame, offers a chance to address the challenges of conflict resolution and peacebuilding with the same creativity and focus as has been traditionally devoted to war games. Similarly, we host FP Simulations in partnership with corporate clients and other partners, which tend to be closed door exercises where business leaders and other global stakeholders confront destabilizing geopolitical threats and crisis scenarios to help inform strategic planning, risk mitigation, and corporate resilience-building for their organizations.
Past PeaceGame Events
Maneuvering Towards Space Sustainability: Strengthening Partnerships to Mitigate Risks in the Cosmos
In 2023, FP Analytics partnered with Amazon and the Net Zero Space Initiative to host a simulation during the Paris Peace Forum to stress-test responses to some of the most pressing challenges facing space exploration and work towards deepening international, cross-sectoral cooperation.
Battling Biothreats: Strengthening Crisis Preparedness to Safeguard Biosecurity
In 2023, FP Analytics partnered with Emergent BioSolutions to produce a series of three simulations, which were held on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) and in Washington, D.C., focused on a hypothetical biosecurity crisis with cascading impacts on global health, public trust, food security, and regional stability.
Enhancing Cyber-Nuclear Security: Strengthening Global Energy, Food, and Health Systems
In 2022, FP Analytics partnered with Schmidt Futures to challenge their International Strategy Forum (ISF) Fellows to tackle threats posed by emerging technologies.
Climate & Food Security in the Asia Pacific
In 2022, FP Analytics and World Vision partnered to hold a virtual simulation grounded in a multi-sector framework for assessing risk and fostering resilience across the humanitarian, development, and peace nexus.
Space and Maritime Security in the South China Sea
In 2021, FP Analytics partnered with the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) to develop the Future Diplomats PeaceGame to engage and train the next generation of foreign-policy leaders.
Fostering Resilience in Northern Central America
In 2021, FP Analytics partnered with World Vision U.S. and the World Bank to develop a simulation focused on mitigating the root causes of forced migration in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
In 2021, FP Analytics and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates partnered on two simulations focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)’s fragile food systems.
In 2020, FP Analytics partnered with the Paris Peace Forum to produce a simulation focused on the accelerating impacts of climate change on civil unrest and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
In 2019, FP Analytics collaborated with the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and Florida International University to advance thinking around how Venezuelans and the international community on a potential state collapse in Venezuela.
In 2018, FP Analytics partnered with the Emirates Diplomatic Academy to produce a Future Diplomats PeaceGame focused on nuclear deterrence, stability, and source of instability in South Asia.
Unpacking the Syria Crisis
In 2018, FP partnered with the Mediterranean Dialogues, “RomeMED,” to produce a PeaceGame as part of the Policy Planners’ Forum to focus on the conflict in Syria and the challenges the international community would face in reconstruction.
How Shifting the US Position on Iran Could Impact Regional Stability
In 2017, FP partnered with the UAE to produce a series of simulations that explored how to de-escalate new conflicts that could emerge given shifts in the U.S. foreign policy stance. The scenarios tackled the shifting U.S. position on Iran and how to avoid a third Intifada.
Cyber Attack 2017 – FDPG – Abu Dhabi, Future Diplomats
FP partnered with the Emirates Diplomatic Academy to produce a PeaceGame which addressed potential fallout stemming from a cyber attack on critical infrastructure, including attacks on financial markets.
Libya Political Transition, 2017 – Brussels
FP partnered with the United Arab Emirates to produce a simulation in Brussels that grappled with potential fallout from political transition in Libya.
Libya Pathways to Political and Security Stabilization
In 2016, FP partnered with the Harvard Kennedy School and the U.S. Institute of Peace to produce a PeaceGame addressing the multidimensional factors contributing to instability in Libya.
Return of Foreign Fighters
In 2015, FP partnered with the U.S. Institute of Peace to produce a PeaceGame where participants grappled with the challenges associated with the return of foreign fighters from Afghanistan, and other regions around the world.
Boko Haram in Nigeria
In 2014, FP partnered with the U.S. Institute of Peace to produce a PeaceGame focusing on the strategies to engage and address instability risks caused by Boko Haram in Nigeria
Past Partners
Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy
Atlantic Council
Emergent Biosolutions
Florida International University
Harvard Kennedy School
Italian Institute of International Political Studies
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Körber-Stiftung
Mediterranean Dialogues
Munich Security Conference
Paris Peace Forum
Schmidt Futures
Toyota
United Arab Emirates
United States Institute of Peace
World Bank
World Vision International
Contact us
If you would like to learn more about our PeaceGames or other FP simulations, please email Allison Carlson at [email protected]