One Day School for Two Governments

1. Home

2. Site map

3. How can one school help solve a conflict?

4. Extended summary

5. Schools between "self-described" states

5b. Why Cyprus first?

5c. Video clips of 5d-5g

5d. Israel - P. Authority

5e. N. Korea - S. Korea

5f. Syria - Israel

5g. Pakistan - India

6. Schools for intra-state conflicts

6b. Video clips of 6c- 6g

6c. N. Ireland (Belfast)

6d. Iraq (Baghdad)

6e. Lebanon (Beirut)

6f. Afghanistan (Kabul)

6g. Nepal (Kathmandu)

7. For the best resolution results

8. The Cyprus problem

8b. Resolution attempts

8c. 2007 UN survey graphs

8d. EU's Turkey decision

9. Why integrating the school is not enough

9b. Cooperative, competitive and individualistic efforts

9c. Integrated schools and inter-group relations

9d. Instilling a shared "superordinate identity"

9e. The cooperative school

10. Cooperative learning?

10b. Video clips of CL

10c. In Cyprus & Turkey

10d. Weaknesses of CL

10e. Research on CL

11. Peer mediation and conflict-resolution education

11b. Research on peer mediation

11c. Research on CRE

11d. Suggested curricula

11e. Negotiation success

12. The Cypriot School (TCS)

12b. Cypriots' views on bi-communal schools

12c. Drawing of The Cypriot School

12d. Minimal visibility of maximum security

12e. Admissions formula for influential two-year-olds

12f. Utilizing best practices in education

12g. Parents’ decision – no forced coercion

12h. How to develop the public’s support

12i. Minimal foreign involvement

13. Why not use The Junior School and The English School?

13b. The argument for using them as they are

13c. The argument for not using them or with changes

14. Teaching history at The Cypriot School

14b. Teaching controversial history topics

14c. Structured Academic Controversy (SAC)

14d. Research on SAC

14e. SAC versus debates

14f. Graphic Organizer

14g. SAC example

14h. Cypriots on history

14i. Proposed curriculum

15. How TCS might catalyze a solution – Part 1

15b. Cognitive dissonance examples

15c. Cog. diss. in TCS families - Part 1

15d. Cog. diss. in TCS families - Part 2

15e. Visuals: Cog. diss. at TCS

15f: Analogy: A watershed and a dying fruit tree

16. How TCS might catalyze a solution – Part 2

17. Funding TCS

17b. Costs of TCS

17c. Who will pay for TCS?

17d. Costs of other conflicts that might benefit

18. Evaluating TCS

19. Video clips about TCS

20. Korean & Golan rail

20b. Estimated cost

20c. Videos: Non-maglev

20d. Palestinian rail

20e. Maglev /Non-maglev?

20f. Videos: Maglev rail

21. Common questions

22. Message board

23. Wikis

24. Selected bibliography

25. Contact information

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In ten world conflicts, the children of each side's political leaders
live close
enough to go to the same school and tell their parents
                         about it each night over dinner.


At these schools, students' teachers can 
catalyze the conflict's solution by using both "cooperative learning" - for at least 35% of all lessons in all subjects - and school-based conflict resolution programs, such as peer mediation.  Cooperative learning, also known as collaborative learning, group work, and learning pairs, has a very rich pool of scholarly educational research to support its use.  The secret is not what this integrated group of students are taught but how they are taught.
                       "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking
                           we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

One school for the children of ...


two opposing national governments - de facto or de jure - in one city:


two opposing national governments - de facto or de jure:


Click above to learn about The Cypriot School.
Click above to learn about The Semitic School.

one national government and the opposing country's local or national government:


one local government and the opposing country's local or national government:


Drawing of The Korean School
Click above to learn about The Korean School.
Drawing of the Abrahamic School
Click above to learn about The Abrahamic School

two opposing countries' local governments:


Drawing of The Punjabi School
Click above to learn about The Punjabi School.

two opposing political groups within one government within one city:


Drawing of the ends of the political spectrum in Northern Ireland
Click above to learn about The Christian School.
drawing showing the ends of the political spectrum in Lebanon
Click above to learn about The Lebanese School.


drawing showing the ends of the political spectrum in Iraq
Click above to learn about The Iraqi School.
drawing showing the ends of the political spectrum in Kabul.
Click above to learn about The Afghani School.


drawing showing the ends of the political spectrum in Nepal
Click above to learn about The Nepali School.
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