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"If you play alone, you don't see the "other side," so you don't have anyone to challenge your actions and you don't have a problem to express stereotypic comments toward the other side," said Ronit Kampf, a communication and journalism professor who uses the game at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

"When you play in mixed dyads, you need to reach an agreed action to be taken which bridges between the two different opinions, and you need to listen to each other and talk with each other so you are exposed to different opinions about the same issue."

Americans studying in Israel have done poorly in Peacemaker, compared to their Israeli counterparts, even after the Americans had intensively studied the conflict for six months.

On average, an American student would make 20 moves before he was thrown out of office, while an Israeli student made an average of 60 moves or more before stepping on a political mine.