1for2: 1 School for 2 Opposing Political Groups' Children

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How can one school help solve a conflict?

Extended summary

Schools between "self-described" states

Why Cyprus first?

Videos of conflicts below

Israel - Pales. Authority

N. Korea - S. Korea

Syria - Israel - Jordan

Pakistan - India

Schools for intra-state conflicts

Videos of these conflicts

N. Ireland (Belfast)

Iraq (Baghdad)

Lebanon (Beirut)

Afghanistan (Kabul)

Nepal (Kathmandu)

For the best resolution results

Why integrating the school is not enough

Video clips of CL

Cypriot School location

Sample drawing

Admissions formula for influential two-year-olds

Visuals: Cog. diss. at TCS

Analogy: A watershed and a dying fruit tree

Evaluating TCS

Fast rail as a school bus

Estimated cost

Videos: Non-maglev

Palestinian rail

Maglev /Non-maglev?

Videos: Maglev rail

Common questions

In ten geopolitical conflicts, children of families from each side's political network could go to the same school and be home by dinnertime.  Using existing academic research, each school would be the best theoretical way to peacefully resolve each conflict.  The key is a teaching method that increases test scores and simultaneously builds a shared social identity, such as their ethnicity.

• The Iraqi School              in Baghdad: Shi'ites, Sunnis, & Kurds
• The Afgani School           in Kabul: Pashtuns (including the Taliban), Tajiks, Uzbeks, & Hazara
• The Christian School       in Belfast, Northern Ireland: Catholic Republicans & Protestant Unionists
• The Cypriot School          in Nicosia: Republic of Cyprus & "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus"
• The Lebanese School     in Beirut: Christians, Shi'ites, Druze, & Sunnis
• The Nepali School           in Kathmandu: Maoists, Royalists, & Social Democrats
• The Semitic School         between Jerusalem and Ramallah: Israel & Palestinian National Authority 
• The Korean School         between Seoul and Kaesong at Panmunjom: North Korea & South Korea 
• The Punjabi School         between Lahore and Amritsar at Wagah: Pakistan & India
• The Abrahamic School    between Nazareth, Israel; Daraa, Syria; & Irbid, Jordan


Contact information: Mills Chapman, mills@1for2.org