One School For The Children Of Two Opposing Governments
1. Home
2. Site map
3. How can one school help solve a conflict?
4. Extended summary
5a. Schools between "self-described" states
5b. Why Cyprus first?
5c. Israel - Palestinian Authority
5d. North Korea - South Korea
5e. Syria - Israel
5f. Pakistan - India
6a. Schools for intra-state conflicts between factions
6b. Northern Ireland (Belfast)
6c. Iraq (Baghdad)
6d. Lebanon (Beirut)
6e. Afghanistan (Kabul)
6f. Nepal (Kathmandu)
7. For the best conflict-resolution results
8a. The Cyprus problem
8b. Motivations of both Cypriot groups
8c. Resolution attempts so far
8d. Graphs from a 2007 UN survey
8e. Effect of the EU's decision about Turkey
8f. Related Youtube videos
8g. Websites about the Cyprus problem
9a. Why only 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
10a. Cooperative learning (CL) is needed
10b. Youtube and VoD videos about CL
10c. CL in Cyprus and Turkey
10d. Links to websites that explain CL
10e. Weaknesses of CL
10f. Research on CL
11a. Peer mediation and conflict-resolution education
11b. Research on peer mediation
11c. Youtube videos about peer mediation
11d. Research on conflict-resolution education (CRE)
11e. Curricula for peer mediation and CRE
11f. Aspects of successful negotiations
12a. 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
13a. 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
14a. Teaching history at The Cypriot School
14b. Teaching controversial history topics
14c. Structured Academic Controversy (SAC)
14d. Why SAC is better than debates
14e. Graphic organizer for SAC
14f. SAC example: The Khmer Rouge
14g. Cypriots on teaching controversial history issues
14h. Proposed history curriculum for TCS
15a. 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
16a. How TCS might catalyze a solution – Part 2
16b. Graph - Future attitudes if TCS is built
17a. Funding The Cypriot School
17b. Costs of TCS
17c. Who will pay for TCS?
17d. Costs of other conflicts that might benefit
18. Evaluating this schooling model
19. Frequently asked questions
20a. Korean & Syrian rail
20b. Estimated cost
20c. Youtube videos of conventional high-speed trains
20d. RAND: High-speed rail for the Palestinians
20e. Maglev or conventional high-speed rail?
20f. Youtube videos of maglev passenger trains
21. 1for2 in the media
22. Message board
23. Wikis
24. References
25. Contact information
26a. Online video clips
26b. The other conflicts
26c. Cyprus
26d. Cooperative learning