Impact Trust • Working glossary

Resilience gaming

Interactive, war-game-style approaches to building resilience skills with scenarios, simulations and preparedness and responses practicals.

Details

Our Take
Triple purpose: awareness + capability identification + risk assessment. The innovation is that participants' decision responses become data that feeds back into improving the scenarios. Connected to but distinct from Red Cross Climate Centre's games. Directly applicable to workshop design.
Examples of Use
Strategic Climate RIsks Initiative
Synonyms/Variants
War gaming (adapted); Scenario simulation; Strategic gaming; Tabletop exercises
Typical everyday wording
Structured exercises for practising decisions in plausible future crises