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IMPACT-SE's Reports |
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IMPACT-SE focuses on the research of school textbooks, teachers'
guides, and syllabi used worldwide--particularly in the Middle
East--to find out whether the younger generations are being
educated to accept "the others," i.e. their neighbors, the
minorities in their midst, and even their enemies, and to
solve conflicts with them through negotiation and compromise,
rather than being incited to rejection, hatred and violence.
IMPACT-SE has published a dozen reports to-date
on: Egypt; Iran;
Israel; the Palestinian
Authority and Hamas in
the Palestinian Territories; Saudi
Arabia; Syria;
and Tunisia. All reports
are written according to IMPACT-SE's unique methodology. |
Latest Reports |
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Rachel's
Tomb in Palestinian Schoolbooks: The Genesis of Falsification
and its Implications - March 2011
In October 2010, the board of UNESCO adopted a resolution
reaffirming that "The Palestinian sites of al-Haram
al-Ibrahimi / Tomb of the Patriarchs in al-Khalil
/ Hebron and the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque / Rachel’s
Tomb in Bethlehem… are an integral part of the
occupied Palestinian Territories and that any unilateral
action by the Israeli authorities is to be considered
a violation of international law." With regard
to Rachel's tomb, the board of UNESCO was actually
being misled and manipulated. Read
more...
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Arabs,
Islam and Palestinians in Israeli Textbooks : A Preliminary
Update - November 2009
IMPACT-SE has recently started a review of Israeli
schoolbooks used in school year 2009-2010. It discovered
that the encouraging fundamentals found in the previous
report persisted and even strengthened, namely: regarding
the "other" as first and foremost a human
being; overcoming suspicion, hatred and prejudices;
knowing and respecting Islam and Arabs; admitting
the legitimacy of the rival national movement and;
presenting conflict in a balanced way.
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IMPACT-SE has concluded a report on
Tunisia's schoolbooks. The results are extraordinary:
following reforms of revolutionary proportions carried
out by the Ministry of Education, the Tunisian schoolbooks,
in stark contrast with most Middle Eastern curricula,
emphasize the importance of tolerance, peace and dialog
with the “other,” equality between all human
groups, openness toward the “other” and
its culture (that is, the West), use of religion for
universal rapprochement, and restriction of the ideals
of (militant) jihad and martyrdom to historical events.
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