Educational Games: “Global Conflicts: Child Soldiers”
| May 3, 2010 | Posted by Lotte under Uncategorized |
Last year Serious Games Interactive launched an educational computer game on child soldiers as part of their award-winning Global Conflicts series. The series has been developed to allow students to learn about different conflicts throughout the world, and about underlying themes such as democracy, human rights, globalization, terrorism, climate and poverty. ”Global Conflicts: Child Soldiers” has been designed as an educational device that focuses on the use of child soldiers in Northern Uganda.
It is a 3D role-playing game based on personal accounts from survivors of the Ugandan civil war, during which government forces and the rebelling Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have been locked in combat for over two decades.
The war forced an estimated 1.7 million people into refugee camps, and resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. More than 55,000 children have been abducted and were turned into soldiers by the LRA. Global Conflicts: Child Soldiers tries to explain why this is happening and how justice can best be ensured.
When playing the game you work for the International Criminal Court and you are sent to Uganda to meet with LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony. But, Kony will only attend the peace-talks if the International Criminal Court and the Ugandan government drop all charges against him. Can you change his mind or should you agree to his demands in the hope of ending one of the most brutal insurgencies of the last two decades?
“We want players to be able to relate to this terrifying conflict in a more personal way by looking a former child soldier in the eyes and listen to his story,” said Serious Games Interactive CEO Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen. “The game offers you a unique opportunity to experience the events that so far most people have only been able to relate to through the news”.
Watch the teaser: Global Conflicts: Child Soldier Teaser
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