An Innovative Approach to Managing International Crises

An immersive engagement that challenges decision makers to game out practical solutions and collaborative strategies to de-escalate complex crises, strengthen peace and security, and build resilience.

FP Analytics applies its rigorous research capabilities to the development and production of scenario-based crisis simulations that facilitate innovative thinking to help meet partners’ strategic, diplomatic, or business objectives.

FP’s Simulations and PeaceGames convene leading minds in national security, international affairs, academia, business and industry, and civil society to think through new pathways to more effectively mitigate and collaboratively manage complex, cross-border risks.

Simulations and PeaceGames are held in person or on a bespoke virtual platform that enables participation from around the world. They have been held as standalone events and alongside international conferences. They can be closed-door or produced as part of a public forum.

past simulations

For over a decade, FP has produced Simulations and PeaceGames with a range of partners and bringing together hundreds of participants from across the globe.

A World Without Antibiotics: Confronting the AMR Challenge

In 2024, FP Analytics hosted an interactive simulation focused on the complex and cross-border challenges that growing antimicrobial resistance present to global health and health systems. Held on the eve of the high-level meetings on AMR at UNGA79, this invitation-only event brought together leaders across global health, finance, and security to work through a research-based scenario. The project was supported by AMR Action Fund, CARB-X, Cepheid, Merck, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Antimicrobial Resistance Working Group, Pfizer, and Viatris.

Fighting ‘Smart’ Pandemics

Recent advances in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to biotechnology could help ensure that the next pandemic kills far fewer people—or that it kills vastly more. In 2024, FPA partnered with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to produce, “Fighting ‘Smart’ Pandemics,” a simulation on the intersection of AI and biosecurity.

Maneuvering Towards Space Sustainability

Space activities are accelerating at a rapid pace, ushering in a range of opportunities for humanity while posing new global challenges in sustainability, security, and governance. Recognizing that deepening international, cross-sectoral partnerships will be vital to mitigating risks and harnessing opportunities in space, FP Analytics partnered with Amazon and the Net Zero Space Initiative to host a simulation during the 2023 Paris Peace Forum.

Battling Biothreats

Throughout 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
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In October, 2022, FP Analytics partnered with Schmidt Futures to hold an in-person simulation in Washington, D.C. to tackle complex, transnational security issues. The researched-based hypothetical scenario challenged Schmidt Futures’ International Strategy Forum (ISF) Fellows to tackle threats posed by emerging technologies to global cybersecurity, energy security, emergency preparedness, food security and trade, and mis- and disinformation.

Climate and Food Security in the Asia Pacific
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In 2022, FP Analytics and World Vision partnered to hold a virtual simulation that challenged participants from around the world to tackle the complex political, socio-economic, and environmental factors that are eroding livelihoods, increasing human and ecosystem vulnerability, and contributing to conflict and migration in the Asia Pacific region, specifically near Bangladesh, Myanmar, and India.

Fostering Resilience in Northern Central America
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In 2021, FP Analytics partnered with World Vision, and in collaboration with the World Bank, to hold an in person simulation on complex political, socio-economic, and environmental factors driving forced migration from three Central American countries—El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Climate and Security in the Middle East and North Africa
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In 2020, FP Analytics partnered with the Paris Peace Forum for an in-person simulation exploring the impacts of climate change induced drought on the countries and communities around the Blue and White Nile River Basins, including forced migration, state fragility, and terrorism. Played three times, with different participants, the findings of this simulation were distilled in a special report.

Opportunities

FP Simulations and PeaceGames strengthen teams’ crisis mitigation and management capabilities as well as diplomatic skills. In addition to adding value for strategy and executive teams, these research-based and interactive opportunities provide a novel and solutions-focused means of engaging with a range of stakeholders to address complex global challenges.

For International Conferences
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FP Simulations and PeaceGames provide a unique, interactive means to engage a range of high-level officials, subject-matter experts, and practitioners in a solutions-oriented exercise that fosters critical thinking and deepens working relationships among participants.

Munich Security Conference 2024: A collaboration between FP, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and MSC, this simulation brought together leaders across security, technology, and global health to assess the risks and opportunities that artificial intelligence presents for biosecurity.

For Foreign-Policy Professionals
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FP Simulations and PeaceGames enable foreign-policy professionals to strategize and think innovatively about challenges and crises that they may well be forced to address during their careers.

Enhancing Cyber-Nuclear Security: A collaboration between FP and Schmidt Futures’ International Strategy Forum to enable international strategists and technologists to “game out” how to strengthen global energy, food, and health systems in the event of a cyber-nuclear disaster.

For Business and Corporations
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FP works with businesses, corporations, and executive boards to craft scenarios specific to their industries or sectors that challenge executives’ ability to assess and respond to complex crises. These interactive engagements provide a unique opportunity to stress-test preparedness for a range of potential crises that could significantly impact their bottom line as well as long-term business resiliency.

Corporate simulations are closed-door and proprietary, as they help inform strategic planning. Please contact us below to learn more.

For Higher Education & Training
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With FP PeaceGames, international relations programs can provide students with constructive, hands-on experience in conflict resolution and international negotiation—building critical skills for any global career path.

Future Diplomats PeaceGame: The Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy partnered with FP to train new cohorts of future global diplomats in negotiation and peaceful conflict resolution.

partners

FP has worked with a range of organizations, companies, and educational institutions on Simulations and PeaceGames at public and private convenings around the world.

If you are interested in learning more about how FP Simulations and PeaceGames could add value to your organization or convening, please reach out.