Prof. Dan Bar-OnI think education will be one of the first issues that will come up on the agenda when dialogue begins again on the political level. Both sides are aware today that it’s important to do something to change education. In Oslo it was neglected. We see it as a problem that in Oslo and even in the Geneva Initiative there was no chapter on education. We feel that education should be a major issue in any upcoming peace agreement. Professor Dan Bar-On began his involvement in dialogue and conflict resolution through working with children of Holocaust survivors and children of Nazi perpetrators. After the Oslo process Dan met and began working with a group of Palestinian and Israeli academics who formed PRIME, the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East. PRIME’s group of teachers and historians has created a high school history text that presents the Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives side by side. |
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