Studies in comparative education

To Live Together: Shaping New Attitudes To Peace Through Education
Edited by Daniel S. Halpérin. 1997. 186 p
ISBN: 92-3-185003-2
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Based on the Israeli-Palestinian Workshop held 26 January to 2 February 1997 at the Centre des Pensières, Fondation Marcel Mérieux, Veyrier du Lac (Annecy), France.

Any war implies material and spiritual confusion—born of confusion—which becomes a self-sustaining process through its causes and its effects. Any attempt to aid the participants and victims of conflict to overcome its traumatic effects must—beyond immediate humanitarian action—redirect the minds of the opposing parties so that they recognize and accept one another. Little is known about how much anxiety, psychosomatic complaints, aggressivity, behavioural disorders or school failures are linked with the direct or indirect consequences of conflict. In what way could such problems be counterbalanced, or even corrected? Is there any kind of educational programme that could offset the cohort of pathological manifestations connected with stress, simultaneously strengthening the construction of peace?

 

At a time when politicians were entering an era of peace-making in the Middle-East, it was thought that the moment might be ripe for Palestinians and Israelis to venture into joint research projects. One potentially fruitful project was an examination of long-term, protracted conflicts on the mental and social health of children. The 'To live together' proposal was conceived as a potentially useful instrument to test such an approach, and to explore the motivation of academics and field workers in Israel and the Palestinian Autonomous Territories for peace education.

Contents

 

 

Introduction by Daniel S. Halpérin

I. A psycho-political perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Introduction by Timothy W. Harding
The Israeli point of view by Ephraim Sneh
The Palestinian point of view by Jamal Al-Shobaki
II. Can we work together?

Prospects and problems for mobilizing civil society in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by Edy Kaufman
A sociologist's views on Palestinian-Israeli co-operation by Bernard Sabella
III. In the shadow of war

The effect of the conflict on Israeli and Palestinian children by Zahava Solomon
Palestinian refugees during the 1948 war as reflected in Israeli and Palestinian history and civics textbooks by Ruth Firer and Sami Adwan
IV. Past and current Palestinian educational efforts to promote co-existence and tolerance

The Gesher newspaper and other initiatives by Itaf Arafat Abu Zayyad
The Palestinian Peace Information Centre by Nadia Nasser-Najjab
V. A decade of structured education encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel by Ifat Klang-Ma'oz

VI. Recent research and intervention activities in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: an overview by Dan Bar-on, Shifra Sagy, Elia Awwad and Michal Zak

VII. Identity reconstruction of young Palestinians, Israeli Palestinians and Israeli Jews in the light of the peace process by Elia Awwad

VIII. Initiatives for peace education

The Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam School for Peace by Michal Zak
'Care and learning': a Palestinian-Israeli education programme for school pupils at the time of the Intifada by Ali Habayeb
Education towards peace and co-existence at the Jewish-Arab Centre for Peace in Givat Haviva by Sarah Ozacky-Lazar
The Palestinian-Israeli co-education experience at a teachers' college and its impact on encounters between Israeli Palestinian and Israeli Jewish kindergarten children by Hadara Keich and Muhammad Hourani
The involvement of Talitha Kumi School in education for peace by Wilhelm Goller
Gan Hashalom/Raoud-al-Salam: a multiconfessional, bilingual kindergarten in Jerusalem by Daphna Ginzburg
Teaching peace and democracy in a West Bank Palestinian school by Hussein Ibrahim Issa
IX. A peace-education project for Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian school pupils using newly-designed curricula by Marwan Darweish and Nedal Jayousi

X. International perspectives

Scouting is education for peace by Fayeq Tahboub
Teaching respect for dignity: the contribution of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement by Edith Baeriswyl
XI. Guidelines for project proposals on peace education by Lya Kremer-Hayon

XII. Key questions needing answers: from confusion to focus by Gavriel Salomon

XIII. Priority objectives and interventions

XIV. Ideas for research and action

APPENDICES

I. 'To live together': a project for evaluating a programme of peace education for Palestinian and Israeli children by Daniel S. Halpérin
II. Workshop participants
III.Behind and beside the 'To live together' project
IV. Profiles of sponsors

 

Published under the auspices of the Geneva Foundation to Protect Health in War and the Multi-faculty Programme for Humanitarian Action at Geneva University with the support of the Marcel Mérieux Foundation and the International Bureau of Education.