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The most challenging decisions was how to reply to the news flashes.

How to reply to the News Flashes

---> Their concerns are about picking alliances to side with

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Most students were satisfied with the decisions and they thought the decisions brought positive effect or helped them avoid some possible dangers.

Betraying Russia, clearing rumors, siding with Hamas, and staying neutral were incidents bringing negative consequences so some students felt bad. And half of them considered other possible choices; therefore, thinking of different options does not guarantee getting the desirable results.

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No consequences, the Saudi Arabian Kingdom is now safe from war.

It was toward the end of the AIC, as one of the last meetings, so there weren't really that many consequences.

I could not tell, since the game ended so soon. However, I do not think it would end well.

In the end, we said no, however, we didn't face any of the consequences because time was up.

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We feel that talking to the Hezbollah was somewhat productive because it did postpone a war, but it did not let the Lebanon March 14th Coalition gain more power than the Hezbollah.

I felt good at first, but the consequences were that we were blamed for the attack on Israel's president

The result of our decision was that all of the other nations, including Palestinian Fatah, created many suspicions. We, being the Palestinian Hamas, were not to surprised. We finally managed to say that we do NOT want to use the support for only military might.

Finally, we decided to side with the UN. We felt neutral about this, because Hezbollah hated us.

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We somewhat regretted our decision later after Hamas bombed Israel.

I felt like a bad person, but it was funny looking at their reactions. No, they couldn't submit an action form before the game ended.

We lost a lot of trust in our allies.

We told everyone that we didn't kill the president, but they didn't believe us and our few allies were reconsidering being our allies.

If we were violent, we might've been able to help prevent attacks

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It had some consequences, but I think that was the best decision: to defend ourselves.

I felt good because we had established that we were the stronger power. No, the game soon ended.

I felt that our decision was good because if we sided with the UN, we would have to go against some of our biggest allies and it would also hurt our economy. I didn't notice any consequences after the decision.

We agreed and hoped that this country wouldn't try and trick us. I think we made the right choice, there was no consequences.

I think we made a good decision because if we supported Hezbollah then the Syrian opposition could've started an uprising in our country, but with the decision we made, nothing happened.

By choosing to make allies and making Hezbollah look like the enemy through news flashes, I feel that we made Hezbollah look bad and diminished their power. It was a successful attempt at redemption.

I felt better because it was a more reasonable approach to end the situation

We didn't alliance with them, and I believe we dodged some bad things that may have happened.

I think our decision was good and the results were okay. I did not notice any consequences.

I think that it was a good idea.

I believe our decision impacted us positively. March 14th Coalition was allies with the USA, and if we didn't make peace with March 14th, the USA would bomb us(they believed we were a terrorist organization).

I think that we made a good decision because our allies agreed with us and Turkey and Syria didn't turn against.

We were satisfied with our decision, although we didn't hear much from other countries. We were glad that we no countries were against us.

I feel satisfied with our decision because we didn't let ourselves get taken advantage of while delaying March 14th Coalition from their main goals.

I was happy with the results. Some groups disliked us, but none of them turned against us.

We were able to form an alliance with Fatah.

I felt about our decisions and results like we had accomplished our goal of siding with our allies. Consequences that occurred were we had to agree with our allies to stay allies with them.

We think we made a right decision, but could have done something else to better influence some of the other events.

We believe that the benefits of this decision outweigh the harms. We did not notice any negative consequences for us.

We originally felt a little bit guilty, but realized we had done the right thing when our plan worked out.

We feel good about the decision that we made because if we agreed to ally with Britain, we would have to betray our other allies. It did not have any consequences.

We felt that it was worth the risk because we became better allies with the U.S. and we weakened the Palestinian Hamas, which is a good way for us to gain back our land and power.

We liked the results and the decision, and it did not have unintended consequences.

We felt good about this, because it had no impact on the bombing of our gracious country at the end.

I feel that the decision was good because we ended up weakening Syria and the Palestinian Hamas and there were no bad consequences.

I think what we did was worth it

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How did you feel about the decision you made and its results? Did it have any consequences that you observed?

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How did you feel about the decision you made and its results? Did it have any consequences that you observed?

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The majority of students consider other possible options. Some students did not think of other choices but they did so because they were determined in the goals or there are not many choices.

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8 responses is about the dilemma of decision so it shows students understand the complicated political relations.

Figuring out other team's intention and how decisions impact the game is another major reason why the decisions were difficult.

Students think carefully about the negative consequences might brought by their decisions such as igniting wars or leaving bad public impression

Even though the majority of students thought deciding who to ally with is the most difficult decision, the reason making the decision hard differs. Some thought it was caused by the uncertainty of the impact and other's intention. Some conceived this was due to the dilemma the decision brought.

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No.  7 out of 27 say “ No ”    1 out of 9 says “ No ”

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No.  7 out of 27 say “ No ”    1 out of 9 says “ No ”

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No, once we decided on staying peaceful it was easy to pursue.

Not really ... our main choice was Palestinian Fatah.

I did not really consider the other options.

No.

No.

We did not consider other options.

No. It was a yes or no question, and we decided on yes

No, because we wanted to continue our program.

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Yes.  20 out of 27 say “ Yes ”      8 out of 9 say “ Yes ”

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Yes.  20 out of 27 say “ Yes ”      8 out of 9 say “ Yes ”

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We thought about not being peaceful, but we decided not to pick sides.

Yes, we considered stating we didn't want peace with March 14th

We considered lying and saying that we did have the meeting, but some of our allies were against this meeting, so we denied it.

We considered possibly asking March 14th Coalition for more information, but we realized that would make us look weak, possibly letting them take advantage of us.

We considered starting a war, but this had a high chance of us being destroyed, so we decided against it.

We considered taking a neutral stance, and  thought of the consequences of siding with each group.

We considered more violent options, like bombing them and claiming power, instead of passive aggressive press releases.

We considered to say yes, but under our rules. We also were considering to say no.

We considered if we should take serious actions against Syria (who we thought was the real culprit).

When we were asked if we were sided with the UN or Hezbollah,  we also considered siding with Hezbollah, not the UN.

We could have said nothing, but the game mentor or NSA told us to reply in some way.

If we had decided to be violent we would've bombed Israel and established an Iraqi colony there.

We considered asking our allies to help us attack the Hezbollah.

We did not consider other options. It was either betray Israel and inform Russia about the attack, or attack Russia. But after they had been losing support from some of their allies, we decided to betray Israel.

Bombing Israel

We decided to support Syrian opposition, because many of their refugees are in our country.

We considered siding with the UN because we couldn't go against them but in the end we decided to try to stay out.

Yes, we could've declined or agreed

Yes, we considered threatening and attacking Hezbollah with our allies.

We considered not making an alliance

We considered using violent and/or military methods but also had to decide if we wanted to remain peaceful.

We were thinking about bombing Iran because they are allies of Syria and we wanted to make Syria really weak.

We considered assassinating Assad

Yes, we considered not supporting this decision, but, as we stated above, we decided to support it.

We considered the option of doing nothing, but we decided to defend the Palestinians instead.

We considered not attacking Iran because it could destroy Israel.

We also considered attacking Iran instead of "allying" with them. We might have let Britain into the plan, but we decided not to.

We did consider trying to manipulate both parties that they had us on their side.

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According to the previous and current analysis,  deciding who to ally with is the most frequently mentioned difficult decision. Also, deciding whether or not to attack other teams is the secondary one.

Comparing to the analysis done before, staying neutral or peaceful is a hard decision for players in this particular game.

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Don't wont to ally with aggressive teams

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Don't wont to ally with aggressive teams

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Because we wanted to make as many alliances as possible, but at the same time, we didn't want to alliance with someone who did harm.

They had already showed us that they were a threat and willing to kill.

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It would've felt good to bomb someone.

It was hard, because Russia was neutral to us, and some people in my group though that we should betray them to Russia.

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It was hard to try and get other countries to be peaceful.

Since we could have bombed other people, I think that refraining ourselves from destroying them is hard.

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We were unsure if it was the right thing to do.

It was challenging because we wanted to make sure we were making the right decision and that we weren't going to burn our bridges.

The decision was challenging because it could decide the outcome of the simulation.

It was a major change in the game, and it extended it by a few days.

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 Uncertainty: unsure about others’ intention

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 Uncertainty: unsure about others’ intention

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Since we weren't sure whether or not Hamas had good intentions and were willing to remain peaceful.

We didn't know whether to trust Hamas or not.

I think that it was the most challenging because we didn't know which team to side with, and if we should betray someone or not.

It was challenging because we didn't know what their plans were. They could've tried to change our government, which wasn't part of our action plan. Or they could created a peace treaty to gain more power.

We, as a group, were not perceived in a good way by most, leading to us questioning whether to accept the peace treaty from a better liked group. Ultimately, this didn't seem politically right as they were our in country enemy.

Our team wasn't sure if the real Hezbollah would do this. But, March 14th had many important allies.

There was a rumor that Hamas was only using Fatah for their military, and they had also assassinated the president of Israel.

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It finally involved us.

Because we wanted to prove that they were false.

Our credibility was at risk because if anybody figured out that we were lying, other countries wouldn't trust us anymore.

We had to convince everyone that we didn't kill him.

We had to decide the best words and how to say that we were innocent.

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I think it was challenging because it could ignite a war and we could lose further control over Israel.

If we made a bad decision than it could put our country in danger, but we wanted to stay by our peaceful ways.

The problem was we thought that they would potentially launch a counter attack

This was a tough decision as this would strain relationships with countries not supporting the attack. In the end, we decided that it would be better to support Syrian Opposition and our other allies, as they were better allies to have in the long run.

It was the hardest decision to make because we may have been attacked, too, because a country leaked our plans.

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This was the most challenging because we had to pick a side with either two state or one state solution and we had to pick a side and countries that would help us accomplish our strategic goals.

It was complicated, because we wanted to help the Syrian opposition but we also wanted to help Hezbollah.

A lot of times, we had to side with a group, and we wanted to state our opinion without other groups turning against us.

There were pros and cons to each decision, but we decided to be peaceful.

I think this decision was really challenging because Syria and Iraq were some our largest allies and were important to our economy but if we sided with them we had to go against the UN which were very powerful.

Both things we could have said would have bad results. If we confirmed, we would have been suspected of doing something shady. If we denied, it would also be considered suspicious.

Britain asked us to be their ally but they said that we had to get rid of our entire nuclear program, but we wanted to continue it.

The main decision under this category was siding with Russia or the EU. Russia is a powerhouse who hates the U.S. We rely on them for trade. Meanwhile, the EU has ties to most of our allies and can lead them against us.

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Talking to the Lebanon Hezbollah.

The most challenging decision was when we decided how to react to Hezbollah's growing power

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One of the most challenging decisions that we have had to make is when we had to decide if we wanted to be allies with Britain.

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I think the most challenging decision was to start supporting a one state solution.

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Deal with the issue of attacking Syria (8 responses)

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Deal with the issue of attacking Syria (8 responses)

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Deciding how to deal with Syria, and trying to maintain the alliance with the US.

Bombing Syria

Whether to attack Syria or not

We supported and funded the Syrian Opposition in their attack on the Syrian Government.

It was hard for us to decide whether to frame the Syrians for military action against Israel or not.

Whether or not to attack Iran.

Our master plan, in which we attacked Syria, "allied" with Iran, attacked Russia and Iran, and then arrest Palestinian Hamas.

Reacting to the situation with the Syrian government and Hezbollah.

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We had to decide who was our friends and who was not.

Some of the most important decisions our team has made is to side with the UN or with Syria and Iraq.

Some of the most challenging decision our team made was siding with the UN, Syria, and Iraq.

Whether or not to side with Hamas.

Making an alliance with Hamas.

We had to decide if we wanted to ally with Palestinian Hamas or not.

The most challenging decision for our team was deciding whom to make allies with. In the end, we aligned with Palestinian Fatah.

We were the Palestinian Hamas. We had to decide between allying with Fatah or waging war against them.

Palestinian Hamas had asked us, Fatah, to alliance right after Hamas had bombed a country, and we had to decline.

Deciding who we wanted to keep as allies and who we were willing to cut ties with.

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Deal with accusation/rumors (6 responses)

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Deal with accusation/rumors (6 responses)

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How to react to the accusations of spying.

How to react to Hezbollah's false accusations of lying and spying.

Whether we would confirm or deny the rumor that we secretly met with other countries

We had to decide what to say when everyone thought we killed the Israeli president.

The most challenging decision our team made was clearing our name from rumors.

The most challenging decision was whether to lie and say that we had a meeting with turkey and Syria or tell the truth.

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We betrayed our alliances and allied with Russia.

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Not getting tempted to align and bomb other countries.

The most challenging decision we had to make was whether we would be peaceful or not.

to remain peaceful

We were wondering whether to be peaceful or to have conflicts.

I think that the most challenging decision we made was to either be violent or peaceful. We knew we were in a position that we could bomb our enemies

The most challenging decision was whether or not to support the attack on Russia.

I think the most challenging decision that our team made was when we were decided what to do; create a peace treaty or not with Lebanon March 14 collation.

The most challenging decision we had to make was whether to accept our enemy's peace treaty(March 14th Coalition)

It was deciding to affirm the peace treaty with March 14th Coalition.

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What is the most difficult decision made by past few weeks?

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What is the most difficult decision made by past few weeks?