King's Wargaming Week 2026

The Wargaming Network is pleased to invite you to join us for our Wargaming Week 2026 highlighting research and design in support of Wargaming Human Security.

The King's Wargaming Network's annual Wargaming Week returns once again this year and features a range of activities that support the Wargaming Network's core mission of the expansion and democratization of wargaming as a method of inquiry. This year's theme is focused on 'Wargaming Human Security' with panels and events that draw attention to how non-traditional security wargaming topics are modeled, studied, and understood through wargaming. Panels and moderated discussions will feature researchers and practitioners active in contemporary wargaming, while workshops and working groups will bring together academics who study wargaming or use wargaming in their research. In addition, events will showcase the wargaming work taking place at King's, including wargames designed by the Network to inform dissertation and policy research, presentations of new wargaming research by staff and students, and a wargame design workshop for those who have never built a wargame before.

Wargaming Week 2026 Agenda

12 May

• Introductory Activities & Welcome Remarks
• Emerging Technologies & Wargaming Methodologies Panels
• Wargaming Education & Epistemology Panels
• Wargames in Practice Exposition
• Contemporary Wargaming Moderated Discussion
• Wargaming Network Welcome Reception

13 May

• Wargaming Network Strategic Analytic Wargame: Horizons
• Hosted Wargame Exposition
• Wargame Design Workshop, Dr. David Banks
• Naval & Non-State Wargaming Panels
• Historical Wargaming & Popular Conceptions Panels
• Research & Design Workshops
• Academic Working Group
• Documentary Screening & Reception

14 May

• Data & Analysis in Wargaming Seminar
• Peacegaming Exposition
• Contemporary Research in Wargaming Seminar
• Closing Remarks

12 May Welcome Remarks will include the dissemination of programs with speaker and individual event details. Please register here to receive full attendance details and event locations. For any questions concerning this event please contact [email protected].

This event is part of the King's Wargaming Network Wargaming Week 2026: Wargaming Human Security.

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