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

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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

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

12. The Cypriot School (TCS)

Possible location

12c. Drawing of The Cypriot School

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

15. How TCS might catalyze a solution – Part 1

15b. Cognitive dissonance examples

15e. Visuals: Cog. diss. at TCS

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

16. How TCS might catalyze a solution – Part 2

18. Evaluating TCS

19. Korean & Golan rail

19b. Estimated cost

19c. Videos: Non-maglev

19d. Palestinian rail

19e. Maglev /Non-maglev?

19f. Videos: Maglev rail

20. Questions about TCS

21. Message board

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 Afghani 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

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