Editing Peace (section)

=== War game ===
{{Main|Peace war game}}

The ''Peace and War Game'' is an approach in [[game theory]] to understand the relationship between peace and conflicts.

The [[iterated game]] hypotheses was originally used by academic groups and [[computer simulation]]s to study possible strategies of [[cooperation]] and [[aggression]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Shy|first=Oz|year=1996|title=Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications|url=https://archive.org/details/industrialorgani0000shyo|url-access=registration|location=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher=The [[MIT]] Press}}</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2023}}

As peace makers became richer over time, it became clear that making war had greater costs than initially anticipated. One of the well studied [[strategy|strategies]] that acquired wealth more rapidly was based on [[Genghis Khan]], i.e. a constant aggressor making war continually to gain resources. This led, in contrast, to the development of what's known as the "provokable nice guy [[strategy]]", a peace-maker until attacked, improved upon merely to win by occasional forgiveness even when attacked. By adding the results of all pairwise games for each player, one sees that multiple players gain wealth cooperating with each other while bleeding a constantly aggressive player.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Nicholas R.|last=Miller|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4235437|url-access=subscription|title=Nice Strategies Finish First: A Review of ''The Evolution of Cooperation''|journal=[[Politics and the Life Sciences]]|volume=4|number=1|pages=86–91|publisher=[[Association for Politics and the Life Sciences]]|year=1985|doi=10.1017/S0730938400020852 |jstor=4235437 |s2cid=151520743 }}</ref>