One School For The Children Of Two Opposing Governments

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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. Israel - Palestinian Authority

5d. North Korea - South Korea

5e. Syria - Israel

5f. Pakistan - India

6. Schools for intra-state conflicts

6b. Northern Ireland (Belfast)

6c. Iraq (Baghdad)

6d. Lebanon (Beirut)

6e. Afghanistan (Kabul)

6f. 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. CL in Cyp. & Turkey

10c. Weaknesses of CL

10d. 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

16b. Graph - Future attitudes if TCS is built

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. Watch TCS videos here

19b. The other conflicts

19c. Cyprus

19d. Cooperative learning

19e. Peer mediation

19f. Connecting the dots

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. References

25. Contact information

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