Students then participate in a trading game in which they explore the international trading system and the ways in which it rewards and punishes countries. Explore actions the international community can take against an imaginary rogue nation. Reconstruct a simple version of the international trading system by playing a trading game. Generate a working solution for the existing conflict in Sierra Leone. You find out a small nation is making electronic toys and selling them to the rest of the world, and then using the money to buy guns to make war on its tiny neighbors.
Students then share their answers.
Each group represents an imaginary country with a different export product. For one television, you can buy two slabs of beef or three bags of onions. For one barrel of oil, you can buy two bags of rice. For two slabs of beef, you can buy three bags of onions. The aim is to trade their country's own goods for others' goods to get some of each product it desires.