Good Governance

It's Your Country!

Explore the intricacies of governance

It's Your Country! is a serious game about governance, decision-making and leadership. Set in a fictitious fragile country plagued by structural shortcomings, participants are challenged to take on the role of local, regional or national leaders. They are tasked to improve the state of the nation and the well-being of the population.

It's Your Country! enables participants to experience and reflect upon processes of (good) governance, political economy and accountability. This serious game is facilitated by two Pax Ludens experts and lasts 4 to 5 hours. It's Your Country! caters to groups of 13 participants or more.

Learning objectives:

It's Your Country! enables participants to:
- Gain unique insights in governance processes
- Improve their decision-making abilities
- Better understand the intricacies of post-conflict development
- Enhance leadership and teamwork skills
- Attain first-hand experience with information asymmetry

The benefits of integrating serious games in your educational programmes

It's Your Country! enables you to bring your educational programmes to the next level. It allows you to provide participants - policy-makers, students and public officials - with a memorable experience in which the subject matter of your training programmes comes to life. Pax Ludens is able to create an effective learning environment specifically developed for in-depth analysis in accordance with your learning objectives.

Past experiences:

It's Your Country! is used to train heterogeneous groups of government, NGO, IGO officials, as well as students. The serious game has been integrated in various standing courses on peacebuilding, (local) governance and leadership at a variety of educational institutions and think-tanks, among which:

  • The Hague Academy for Local Governance: for groups of UN staff & government personnel
  • The Barcelona International Peace Resource Center: for groups of government & NGO personnel
  • Dutch United Nations Student Association: for students with an International Relations interest
  • Regent's College London: for graduate students with a multidisciplinary background

It's Your Country! is a tried and tested serious game played by over 200 participants in its first year. Pax Ludens has all the in-house expertise and (ICT) capabilities to facilitate all aspects of this serious game.

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