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Conflict Management

Mission Z
Aim: Strategy and conflict management
Method: Role playing / team game
Duration: 2 hours
Number of participants: 20 (divided in 5 teams)
Game operators: 1 commander, 1 moderator, 3 observers 

Tools: world map, bricks ( long and square ) , action badge, number badges, secret mission card,
newspapers cards, instructions, small map
Description: Participants choose the tables (teams) marked with color upon entering the working
area. They are presented with instructions, game tools and secret mission. Moderator gives short
description of the game to the team ambassadors (chosen by the team, after reading the
instructions). The game takes place on another (imaginary) planet where mankind needs to try to
live after the destruction of the earth. 

The first sentence of the instructions, clearly stated that the goal of the game, is to explore and
live in the new environment. The playing field is the main big map, located on the main table,
supervised by the game moderator. The map consists out of 5 resources (water, grass fields,
mountains/desert, forest and special resources) with each one holding a certain value. Special
resources were the most valuable one with 15 units and are followed by water 5, forest 4, grass
fields 3, mountains/desert 1. Each team has different starting position on the map which meant
different environment surrounding.

The game has 5 rounds, which consist out of 2 parts (strategy and action) having limited time of
playing per part, starting from 5 minutes for the first round and ending all the way with 30 seconds
in the last 5th round.
Strategy phase is about deciding how to play square bricks (which are collected in the command
center by exchanging the number badges), long bricks ( that represent the walls and restricted the
movement in the direction over the wall), action cards (that carry description of possible
measures). 

Secret mission determine strategic orientation. Its objective is to gather enough resources to
support life of your people. Secret mission objective varied between the teams. During the phase
music is loud and aggressive and serve as the distraction tool to interfere with the thinking
process.
During the phase all the participants are allowed to move freely in the area and approach the map
to calculate their exploring route and number of necessary resources. 

Fields on the map are taken by placing the square brick on them and allowed movement is absent
of diagonal direction. Once the brick is placed it could not be move and the same rule is applied
for the long bricks/walls.