I've gotten the impression that in the academic use of the term "wargaming" encompasses this as well. For example, there's an article in the "Zone of Control" b

I've gotten the impression that in the academic use of the term "wargaming" encompasses this as well. For example, there's an article in the "Zone of Control" book I mentioned above titled "Cultural Wargaming: Understanding Cross-Cultural Communications Using Wargames". The emphasis being non-combat, non-conflict of course. There's other discussions of that in the book, though I haven't gotten that far into it yet. But wargaming issues such as diplomacy, geopolitical interactions, and the like I think all fall into this category as well. Even in IT, we tend to call operational exercises "wargaming". The Model U.N. conferences I did in high school I think fall into this category as well. I think you nailed it when you said that there's something "essentially analytical" that separates this sorta modeling from roleplaying, in that there's a system of rules which all parties have to abide by in order to help produce a realistic model. I think "Peace gaming" is absolutely part of this subject, and we might stick it under the "Wargaming" category for established convention purposes, it definitely belongs here.