Bloomberg Businessweek quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the use of peace games as a tool to identify triggers of instability in Africa:
Today’s commanders, facing threats that have grown to include pandemics such as Ebola, water wars and metastasizing mega-cities, use mathematically driven computer simulations.
“This is new,” said Peter Pham, who heads the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, a Washington policy group. “A couple of years ago, we didn’t see any of this.”