“WAR GAMIFICATION”

Event Date: 14th November 2026
Location: Online, 5pm

WILPF US hosts
“WAR GAMIFICATION”

REGISTRATION LINK TO ZOOM:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/l9sT3hJeTIqyWuLMxEE0MA

Saturday November 14, 2026  

9AM Pacific, 10AM Mtn, Noon Eastern US, 
5PM London, 6PM CET

Our speakers’  Webinar “War Gamification” exposes how treating real-world conflict like a video game and merging computer gaming with military infrastructure dangerously desensitizes both soldiers and society to the catastrophic, human costs of war.

As their conflict redefines 21st-century combat, both the Ukrainian Brave1 digital marketplace and Russian financial reward incentives are establishing a terrifying global precedent by transforming battlefield casualties and equipment destruction into a digitized points-for-prizes system designed to export “Call of Duty”-style military procurement norms to future battlefields around the world.

Profiles of speakers:

Ellen Barfield, Formerly US Army, is a long-time full-time peace and justice activist who serves on national boards or committees of War Resisters League, Veterans for Peace, and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and others. In her hometown of Baltimore, MD, she co-founded and directs the Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter of Veterans For Peace working with Baltimore Peace Action on anti-war work, and Nicaragua and Palestine solidarity groups. She has traveled with multiple peace delegations to Iraq, Palestine and Nicaragua. Ellen is a US Army veteran, 1977 to 1981, earning the rank of Sergeant, earned a B.S. in Animal Science paid for with Army money.

Dr. Aggie Hirst, Associate Prof.(Reader) in International Relations Theory and Methods in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her research is situated in international political theory and critical military/war studies. She is author of Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military (Oxford University Press 2024), and articles with International Studies Quarterly, Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, and Review of International Studies focused upon play, games, and the military wargaming renaissance. She is also co-author of Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries, a student-facing book that offers a novel approach to teaching theory.