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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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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)
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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)
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AJC-CMIP
Report: "Scant Progress in Revising Palestinian
Textbooks" (pdf,
28 kb)
- Media
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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)
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