Disarming the teaching of history in Israel and Palestine

Vispo.com hosts the Web site of PRIME, the Peace Research Institute in the
Middle East. PRIME is mainly run by Dan Bar-On, an Israeli scholar, and
Sammi Adwan, a Palestinian scholar.

There are two new documents on the Web site you may find of interest.

LEARNING EACH OTHER'S HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
http://vispo.com/PRIME/leohn1.pdf
This is a preliminary translation into English of a document developed by
Israeli and Palestinian High school teachers that presents to grade 9 and 10
students in Israel and Palestine something of the historical narrative of
the 'other side'. This project is an attempt to "disarm the teaching of
history". There are articles about this project at
http://vispo.com/PRIME/patience.htm (a copy of a USA Today article) and at
http://vispo.com/PRIME/herzog.htm (a copy of an article from the Globe and
Mail). This PRIME project was awarded the inaugual Goldberg IIE prize for
peace-building in the Middle East (see
http://vispo.com/PRIME/goldbergprize.htm ).

THE PRIME SHARED HISTORY PROJECT
Peace-Building Project Under Fire
http://vispo.com/PRIME/iram192.pdf
This is an article by Dan Bar-On and Sami Adwan concerning the background
and some of the research concerning the 'Learning Each Other's Historical
Narrative' project.

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