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Ahlen wa sahlen fi Midan Tahrir !. Welcome to Tahrir Square. The date is February 2 nd , 2011: protests have been ongoing in Egypt for a week For Jordan and Saudi Arabia Will you ignore them? Aid the government? Push for reform? For the US: Will you pressure Mubarak to step down?
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Ahlen wasahlen fi MidanTahrir! Welcome to Tahrir Square
The date is February 2nd, 2011: protests have been ongoing in Egypt for a week • For Jordan and Saudi Arabia • Will you ignore them? Aid the government? Push for reform? • For the US: • Will you pressure Mubarak to step down? • The Egyptian government and army: • What will you do to retain power? And for the army, how loyal are you, and to whom? • For the opposition: • How committed are you? Will you use violence? Or will you stick to peaceful methods?
There will be five 10 minute rounds. • During each round, you must each make a couple of choices, as indicated on your information sheets. • The decisions you make will effect what everyone else does, in one way or another. • All of the players have certain private information about their own incentives, preference, and what they will be forced to do under what circumstances. • Civil war, for the purposes of this simulation, is defined as two consecutive rounds in which both protesters and the army use violence • If Mubarak does step down by the end of the fifth round, we will hold elections. Any of the Egyptian players can run in them • NOTE: You DO NOT have to respond exactly the way the real actors did. You can try different things, or try the same things.