THE ATTITUDE TO 'THE OTHER' AND TO PEACE

Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace:

Founded in 1998, 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. As a non-profit, non-political organization, our purpose is to identify what is being taught in the schools with regard to recognition and acceptance of the “other” by drawing on the text itself, rather than the interpretation of it. Pioneers in the field of textbook analysis, CMIP endeavors to present a clear picture of how different countries instruct and educate their youth with regard to different religions, societies, cultures, democratic values and the “other”.

The full report is now available on the site. Also available in English, French and German, a seperate overview of the report and an article composed by the author. These will be presented during the first part of February in: Brussels, Geneva, Vienna, Paris and London.
Click below for relevant links:
* The full Report

* Overview of the report:
English French German

* A policy paper: "Iran's Global War Curriculum" by Dr. Arnon Groiss:
English French German

Concluding Note on Iran:

The Iranian school textbooks thus provide an example of a hate curriculum and betray an
educational system that prepares school children for war and martyrdom against the West
in general, and against the United States and Israel in particular. The continuation of this
way of thinking and indoctrination inside this system – which seems to be almost certain
under the presidency of Mahmud Ahmadi-Nezhad – should alarm all individuals and
governments that cherish the principles of peace and international cooperation.