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

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

Possible location

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

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

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

Maglev or conventional high-speed rail?


Maglev trains are another possibility for The Korean and Abrahamic Schools.  The only train with regular passenger service so far is the Shanghai maglev, but others are being proposed in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and elsewhere in China, such as between Shanghai and the city of Hangzhou.  The proposed UK line is the longest one on any drawing board; it would stretch from London to Edinburgh and Glascow.  The existing Shanghai train reaches 430 km/hr, the top speed on a daily basis for the proposed Shanghai-Hangzhou line would be 450 km/hr, and the experimental Japanese maglev train has attained a maximum speed of 581 km/hr.

Unlike conventional high-speed trains, maglev trains utilize electromagnetic force.  They are much faster but their costs are higher, so it is unclear whether this greater cost would be offset by the time-saving benefits of a quicker trip. 
For a good analysis of the Shanghai maglev's costs and benefits, from the perspective of a layperson, click here. 


Next page: 20f. Youtube videos of maglev passenger trains

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