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This normative gaming was inherited by the International Communication of Negotiation with Simulation (ICONS) at the University of Maryland -- Professor Jonathan Wilkenfeld, its director, was a graduate student under Bob Noel at that time. ICONS is now conducting gaming simulation with more than 45 schools around the world every month.

Professor Leopoldo Schapira of University of Cordoba in Argentina, then performed similar gaming simulation on drug trafficking with his colleagues around Latin American countries. One of its participants was Professor Jose Brenes at the University of Costa Rica, who participated in our GLH in October, 1995 -- see his contributing paper later.

The other similar follow-up is Project IDEALS (International Dimension in Education via Active Learning and Simulation) at the University of Alabama which is a computer-assisted learning environment based on multi-site, semester-long, socially-interactive simulations.

These projects are (a) to develop competence and confidence in communicating with people from other cultures, and so help create international friendships, (b) to give students greater knowledge and understanding of international events and issues and to provide a context for interdisciplinary studies, (c) to enhance professional skills in such areas as team work, decision making, problem solving, leadership and negotiation, and to develop computer literacy, clear writing and critical thinking.