Update: AFMP released: For more than forty years Gene Sharp (1973) has argued against viewing nonviolent struggle simply as a means of last resort used only by oppressed groups with little left to lose. Recent history has supported his longstanding hypothesis that nonviolent direct action can be wielded with considerable success, even against powerful and hostile antagonists unlikely to be swayed by moral and emotional appeals . . .

Can a computer game teach players how to defeat real-world adversaries – dictators, military occupiers, and corrupt rulers – by bypassing laser rays and AK47s and choosing instead a non-military strategy and nonviolent weapons?

A Force More Powerful features ten scenarios inspired by recent history --conflicts against dictators, occupiers, colonizers, corrupt regimes, and struggles to secure political and human rights of ethnic and racial minorities and women – to demonstrate the effectiveness of nontraditional “weapons” such as strikes, boycotts, and mass protests.

AFMP is the first and only game to teach the methods of influencing or changing the political environment using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists and leaders of nonviolent resistance and opposition movements, the game will also educate the media and general public on the potential of nonviolent action, and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistance.