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About the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance


The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education--formerly referred to as the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMIP)--examines the content of school textbooks used in the Middle East, to determine whether children are being taught to accept and recognize the right of the "other" to exist. It is our belief that education should be utilized to encourage an attitude of tolerance, pluralism, and democracy, and to promote peaceful means of solving conflicts...[more]

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Latest Report: Palestinian Textbooks
Jews, Israel, the West and Peace in the Palestinian Authority Textbooks
for Grades 11, 12 and the Religious Institutions
(Draft, September 2007)
     * Report by Chapter
     * Executive Summary (Draft, pdf, 37 kb)
     * Full Report (Draft, pdf, 3.32 mb)
     * Related Readings:
          - Analysis: "Palestinian Textbooks: From Arafat to Abbas and Hamas" 
            (March 2008, pdf, 693 kb)
          - AJC-CMIP Report: "Scant Progress in Revising Palestinian             Textbooks" (pdf, 28 kb)
          - Media Articles on the Report

Highlights

 

Special Interview with Dr. Arnon Groiss: "Iran Educates Children to 'Seek Martyrdom'"
CBN News, Dec. 19, 2007
During Iran's war with Iraq in the 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini sent thousands of Iranian children directly into minefields. He promised that they'd see heaven as their reward. Today's Iranian leadership is quite unpopular with its growing younger generation -- the Mullahs are attempting to reclaim this group one textbook at at a time...

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Other Recent Updates


IMPACT-SE Now Hiring: Director of Communications
May 2008
The Real Problem with Palestinian and Israeli Schoolbooks: A Response to IPCRI's Statement of March 23, 2008
April 2008
The Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) lately issued a statement claiming that the main problem regarding the Palestinian and Israeli schoolbooks "is the almost total lack of any reference in each side's text books to the other side. Israelis and Palestinians learn almost nothing about each other. This intentional lack of reference is an indication of the fact that both sides have yet to come to terms with the political and national existence of the other." This statement is factually incorrect since both the Palestinian and the Israeli textbooks do actually refer to each other. The real problem is in which terms.
IMPACT-SE's Report on Iranian Textbooks Discussed on Iranian VOA Program (Video)
March 25, 2008
IMPACT-SE's Researcher Shayan Arya participated in an hour long discussion on the popular Persian program "Round Table," produced by Voice of America (VOA), regarding the Iranian school curriculum and IMPACT-SE's report. Dr. Saeed Paivandi of Paris-8 University, who just published a similar report regarding Iran's educational system under the Islamic regime for the Freedom House, also participated.
Discussion Panel on "Iranian Textbooks: Preparing Iran’s Children for Global Jihad"
Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, March 10, 2008
As debates rage about Iran’s nuclear intentions, educational textbooks may serve as one of the more candid guides for discerning this regime’s worldview and ideology. IMPACT-SE researchers, Arnon Groiss and Shayan Arya, covered the Iranian report’s detailed findings and discussed the implications for the United States and the rest of the international community.
Supporting document: PowerPoint Presentation (pdf, 1.23 mb)