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

Pakistan - India

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

15b. Cognitive dissonance examples

15e. Visuals: Cog. diss. at TCS

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

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

The Christian School


What it would take for the leaders of the Democratic Unionist and Sinn Fein parties, as well as those of the paramilitaries, to send their children to the same school?  Click here to learn about the demographics and politics of Northern Ireland and here to learn about the history of Northern Ireland.  In March of 2007, Ian Paisley Sr. and Gerry Adams, the respective leaders of the Democratic Unionist and Sinn Fein parties, met face-to-face for the first time, and there was a breakthrough in negotiations.  However, a school for the children of the leaders of these historically opposed parties would cement the stability of peace in Northern Ireland's future.

Click here to watch a beautiful, non-sectarian video of the famous murals in
Northern Ireland.  This second video of the murals is beautiful as well, but it explicitly claims not to be from a neutral perspective.  Click here to watch a scene from last year of a parliamentary session involving Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley Sr.  Lastly, here is Part 1 of Part 24 of a video about "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. 


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