The good, the bad and then ugly I must say describes the simulation well.
THE GOOD: Our NSA responded with good intentions to our group and how we worked skillfully together. It was through our background information and precedent of our countries decision-making that made us successful in setting up alliances through our private communiqués. Furthermore, our group was able to provide feedback well to our NSA that was beneficial to us because it allowed us to receive feedback from her viewpoint as well. Overall, my group (Victoria and Ramya) received excellent comments back from our NSA. Good job Girls!
THE BAD: Personally, representing Palestine Fatah was although an interesting task; was also challenging at times. Understanding how my country formed decisions but more importantly reacted to other countries decisions was something I had to build my knowledge throughout the simulation. This was probably because they did not have similar opinions as a democratic country such as countries in North America.
THE UGLY: Even though my group was able to accomplish many goals to help solve the problem, it is unfortunate it could not run this smoothly in the real world. This simulation has helped me realized that you have to be very rational and always be thinking of the future in every move you make, big or small.
It sounds like you were very successful in your AIC simulation! I hope you were able to achieve a majority of your goals. I can imagine how interesting, and sometimes difficult, representing Palestine Fatah could be.
ReplyDeleteAs for the ugly, it is true that it could not run this smooth in the real world. I felt like the AIC Simulation was a great learning tool and a great experience to take part in to understand countries interactions with another and the relationships between states and nations.
I'm glad that you got such positive feedback from your NSA. It definitely would have been a huge learning curve representing the Fatah as they are a relatively unknown party in the AIC. While they are relatively unknown they are still quite important. In my game Israel wouldn't even negotiate until Hamas and the Fatah agreed to speak with one voice!!!
ReplyDeleteYour choice in nation for the AIC conflict was definitely an interesting one! it must have been a great learning experience. It sounds like you did good things in the simulation. One thing that was similar between us was the fact that it was hard to effectively and realistically play our countries because we have different morals and ideals, being from the westen world.
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