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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

"THE NEW MAP GAME(tm)" to Investigate War and Peace in Decades Ahead

Exploration to follow grand strategy of Thomas P.M. Barnett from his New York Times bestseller, The Pentagon's New Map

(Newport, RI) - Senior policy makers, defense officials, corporate leaders, and global strategists from coast-to-coast are set to convene in Newport, RI, May 31-June 2, 2005 for "The New Map Game: Investigating War and Peace in the 21st Century,(tm)" an unconventional war game where success is achieved if peace breaks out.

This three-day executive-level game will examine Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett's theories, pitting participants against each other in a realistic role-playing competition. The New Map Game will give players a unique experience and an intimate understanding of how global affairs and the global business environment are likely to unfold in the near future. Participants will investigate how simulated world conditions could foster the rule of law, collective security, economic connectivity, political community, and free markets protected from destabilizing strife.

What: TUESDAY May 31, 6:00 PM - VIP Reception and Dinner with Thomas P.M. Barnett at the Hyatt Regency Newport.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY June 1-2 - Participants will be divided into four teams, each representing a country from one of the four geo-political segments described in The Pentagon's New Map: the Old Core, New Core, Seam States, and The Gap. Each team will role-play the most powerful people in their respective countries.

• Old Core - Established politically and economically, these countries create and maintain modern international structures (e.g., USA, EU, Australia, Japan)

• New Core - Emerging economic markets and centers of geo-political power (e.g., China, India, Russia)

• Seam States - Emerging, volatile countries, potentially infiltrated by agents from The Gap (e.g., Mexico, Brazil, Greece, Pakistan)

• The Gap - States that are disconnected from the international system, characterized by repressive regimes, chronic poverty, disease, and conflict (e.g., Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan)

The four player countries are the United States (Old Core), China (New Core), Brazil (Seam State), and Iran (Gap). The game will use the "four flows" concept from PNM (people, money, security, energy) to animate the moves and moves-within-moves.

THURSDAY June 2, 2:30-4:30 PM - Debrief and Game Preliminary Results, with Control Team commentary.

WHO: "The New Map Game: Investigating War and Peace in the 21st Century," is presented by Alidade Incorporated and The New Rule Sets Project, LLC, in collaboration with Alphachimp Studio Inc.

The New Map Game is sponsored by Enterra Solutions, LLC, whose Enterprise Resiliency Management Solution* incorporates Tom Barnett's Pentagon's New Map rule-set principles to deliver a new strategic and operating paradigm for leading secure, compliant, adaptable, and high-performing critical infrastructure entities within the third wave of globalization.

Confirmed as Keynote Speaker is Thomas P.M. Barnett.

Special guest and presenter Judy Pensabene, General Counsel, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has been invited to speak as a Policy Commentator. In addition, Stephen F. DeAngelis, President and CEO of Enterra Solutions, will be a special guest and presenter at The New Map Game.

Also integrated into the gameplay will be several Cultural Ambassadors, who will share their insights and intuitions regarding the decisions made within each Country Team. As participants seek to game the successes that need to occur, not just test the failures already imagined, they will benefit greatly from the fidelity that the Cultural Ambassadors' involvement will ensure. Confirmed Cultural Ambassadors include:

* Niu Ke (China Country Team) - Niu Ke is an associate professor at the Department of History, Peking University (PKU), and is also a researcher at PKU's Center for Studies of World Modernization Process. Presently he is visiting Harvard University as a Harvard-Yeching Visiting Scholar for the academic year 2004-05. He received his B.A. in 1992 and his Ph.D. in 1998, both from PKU.  His intellectual interests include development/modernization theories, Cold War history, U.S. aid/development policy to the Third World, and the interactions between U.S. social sciences and Government policy. While at Harvard, he is working to broaden his understanding of the American mind by focusing much of his work on the institutional and intellectual history of the U.S. Social Sciences.

* Geoffrey D. Schad (Iran Country Team) - Professor Schad has a Ph.D. and M.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania in the fields of Modern Middle Eastern history (post-1800); comparative colonialism; and comparative industrialization. He also received an A.M. in regional Studies-Middle East from Harvard University; completed advanced study of Modern Standard Arabic from the Middlebury College School of Arabic; and graduated from Hamilton College A.B. Magna Cum Laude in History. Currently a Professor in the Department of History at Villanova University, Professor Schad has taught Middle East history at, among other places, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania.

WHERE: The Hyatt Regency Newport, located at 1 Goat Island, Newport, RI.

WHEN: May 31-June 2, 2005

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If you are a JOURNALIST who would like to embed with one of The New Map Game countries, please contact Steff Hedenkamp. The New Map Game media credentialing form and interview request form may be downloaded. For more information or to register visit: http://www.newmapgame.com Contact: Steff Hedenkamp, New Rule Sets Project, LLC

About Alidade Incorporated. Alidade Incorporated is a leading provider of innovative Information Age research services. Alidade researchers focus on complex systems science, process innovation, strategic investment options, and scenario-based planning and war gaming for both military and commercial clients. Alidade was the first company to pursue the "new sciences" as they apply to the US military's future. As members of the prestigious Santa Fe Institute, Alidade also hosts programs and workshops that bring world class experts in contact with senior executives to identify and explore new sources of advantage in the Information Age.

About The New Rule Sets Project, LLC. The New Rule Sets Project, LLC, (NRSP) was formed around Thomas P.M. Barnett's vision for the world and his message of "A Future Worth Creating." In all its efforts, NRSP is determined to develop and implement Tom's concepts, working with others toward that goal. Tom's book, The Pentagon's New Map (Putnam, 2004), marks an historical crossroad of many highways. Tom has erected signposts to the future and the role of NRSP is to help direct traffic down the right road. NRSP works collaboratively and strategically with its clients to develop groundbreaking ways of thinking about and creating desired futures. The firm helps its clients discover the sets of rules that enable or impede them across organizational sectors and geographical boundaries. NRSP uses innovative scenario planning, lateral thinking, and active listening techniques to engage its clients - leaders and decision-makers in government, security, and industry - in a learning dialogue. The firm does this during "summiteering:" intensive, executive-level explorations of simulated futures, posited and positive.

About Alphachimp Studio Inc. Alphachimp Studio explores visual learning as a powerful tool in critical thinking, problem solving and strategic planning for business, education, governance and social enterprise. Their network of artists have used their talents to serve such diverse clients as the American Heart Association, Bayer Chemicals, Cap Gemini, the Alcoa Foundation, Ernst & Young, GM, GE, MIT, Fidelity Investments and Microsoft. Their skills at synthesizing ideas in a compelling and useful form have been used at major conferences for the Center for Business Innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pop!Tech  and the Society for Organizational Learning.  The founder, Peter Durand , has also been invited to contribute his talents to strategy sessions and war games sponsored by DARPA, USJFCOM and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including past Alidade conferences on Search Theory and the Co-Revolutionary Competition. Peter's interests have recently turned to the emerging field of social enterprise. The Pittsburgh Social Enterprise Accelerator asked Peter to co-design a methodology for aiding non-profits in the design of revenue-generating business models. For more information about Alphachimp Studio, please visit www.alphachimp.com

About Enterra Solutions, LLC. Enterra Solutions pioneered the field of Enterprise Resilience Management* and is helping critical infrastructure entities to establish resilient operations and value chains. Enterra's proprietary Enterprise Resilience Management Methodology* (ERMM*) combines a proprietary best-practices model and leading-edge technology solutions with tailored process improvement services and resilient business process outsourcing. Enterra's unique offering codifies and embeds new rule sets and governance standards into the organizational core. ERMM* allows organizations to adopt an integrated approach to the management of security risks, compliance concerns, performance improvement, and corporate intelligence. Enterra's customers and partners include NASA, SAIC, Macromedia, Oracle, and the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. For more information about Enterra Solutions and its Enterprise Resiliency Management* solutions, please visit www.enterrasolutions.com or call (215) 497-3100.