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Utopianism, video games, and sex are this week’s topics in the University Lecture Series.

This afternoon, graduate students Asi Burak and Eric Brown in CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center will give a lecture on the project, a video game they developed to simulate Mideast conflict.

Burak and Brown, co-producers of the PEACEMAKER Project, lead a team of graduate students dedicated to the cause of finding creative solutions to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.

According to the PEACEMAKER website, the game is designed so that “players choose the role of either the Israeli prime minister or the leader of the Palestinian Authority. The goal is to establish a stable resolution to deadly, protracted conflict before the politicians’...

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