Imagine being a world leader and waking up to this message.

A new fringe group based in Europe with an apocalyptic ideology gains popularity online seeking

to bring an end to the existing socio-political order by engaging in indiscriminate killing.

Pretty upsetting, right?

But don't worry, this dire warning is all made up.

So for over a decade at this point, foreign policy has been putting on peace games and crisis simulations.

And effectively, what these are, are their role-playing

immersive exercises based on hypothetical or fictional scenarios.

This is Maiz Shalam and I'm vice president of Research at FP Analytics, which is the independent research division of

foreign policy.

I'm also a professor at Johns Hopkins-Sice, where I teach a class on complex crises and

international relations.

Myisha helps orchestrate what foreign policy calls its peace games, where participants

from a range of different backgrounds are thrust into high stakes make-believe scenarios.

We focused on everything from armed conflict and how it interacts with climate change and environmental disaster to food security issues.

We have, for example, last year hosted a crisis simulation and peace game at the Paris Peace Forum on outer space governance.

Ensuring orbital safety and security is critical to life on Earth.

As outer space becomes more crowded and congested, how do we responsibly and sustainably maintain

exploration in space?

Disruptions could greatly impact telecommunications, navigation,

weather and climate monitoring, defense capabilities, and even global finance.

The Peace Games aren't just a team-building exercise,

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