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Suzanna Samstag Oh talks a mile a minute. I've barely gotten my laptop open and she's told me about her entire professional trajectory and the how's and why's of her current involvement in games for social change. It's fascinating. She's been a Peace Corps volunteer, headed up the creation of…
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Channel 4 Game for Disarming Britain
As part of a special season of programs about the increasing use of violence and weapons by young people on UK streets, Dead Ends is a 3D game that aims to raise awareness by letting people play on both sides of the law.
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Games for Change presented last week at a youth leadership summit in Guatemala, called “Leaders of the Present: Youth Leadership and Civic Engagement in Central America” hosted by the Project on Justice in Times of Transition. It was a meeting of minds among youth leaders in Central America with their older, mentor counterparts. Our panel, “Creative Tools for Making a Difference” was well received and we were asked to follow up with an impromptu workshop on social issue games and how the participants could get involved in creating them by getting involved in our up-coming project-focused social network “CampG4C”.
After the workshop, which we were all loath to end, there was a gratifying surge of interest from many individuals from…
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