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28th September 2011 - Education for Social Cohesion |
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a whole school approach to active citizenship education and social cohesion.. |
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The CLS is Promoting active citizenship education and behaviours by focusing on developing students' competencies, skills and attitudes.
Fostering a supportive, democratic, and cohesive school environment that encourages participation and empowers the whole school community. |
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please refer to the project information and view a recently published eleven minute film about the ESC project in Lebanon. |
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July 11th 2011 - CLS Newsletter |
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July 2011 issue |
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November 11-13, 2011 - Upcoming Conference at LAU Byblos. |
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on 'Healing the wounds of history'. |
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May 20, 2011 - Workshop at St Antony's College. |
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on Social and Political Change in Lebanon. |
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'Social and Political Change in the Aftermath of the 2005 Hariri Assassination: Implications for Everyday Life in Lebanon', One-day workshop. 10:30am to 6pm, organized by CLS fellow Sami Hermez - St. Antony's College, Oxford University. |
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please refer to the Conference Programme.. |
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April 18, 2011 - Chatham House, London 'Lebanon and the Arab Revolt', Talk by CLS fellow Sami Hermez |
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April 6, 2011 - Middle East Centre, Manchester University, 'The War is Coming: Living Everyday Life in Anticipation of Violence in Lebanon', Talk by CLS fellow Sami Hermez |
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March 28, 2011 - 'Is Lebanon Reformable?', Nadim Houry |
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Nadim Houry is Human Rights Watch's senior researcher for Lebanon and Syria and the director of the Beirut office. His talk entitled 'Is Lebanon Reformable?'. In the course of his work Nadim has documented violations of international humanitarian law during the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. He has also researched human rights violations affecting vulnerable groups in Lebanon such as migrant domestic workers, Iraqi and Palestinian refugees, victims of enforced disappearances and Lebanese detainees in Syria. His work on Syria focuses mostly on arrests of activists and restrictions on freedom of expression.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Nadim served as Deputy Counsel for the Volcker Commission, where he spent over a year conducting fact-finding missions in the Middle East to unearth the facts of the UN's prominent corruption inquiry into the Oil-for-Food Programme.
An attorney by training, Nadim worked as a corporate lawyer for Shearman & Sterling in New York for the two years prior to his work at the Volcker Commission.
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March 28, 2011 - Notre Dame University, 'Education in Lebanon: Toward More Sectarianism and Conflict? The Role of Faith and Secular Schools', Talk by CLS fellow Dr. Maha Shuayb |
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CLS fellow at University of Cambridge, Dr Maha Shuayb, gave a talk at Notre Dame University on the 28th of March entitled 'Education in Lebanon: Toward More Sectarianism and Conflict? The Role of Faith and Secular Schools'.
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March 24-25, 2011 - 'History Education: a lesson from Lebanon and to Lebanon', Presentation of the study |
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The CLS research team presented the findings of their study of history education in Lebanon. The research findings were presented at a conference organised by the Lebanese Association for Educational Research entitled 'History Education: a lesson from Lebanon and to Lebanon' which took place on the 24th and 25th of March in Rivera Hotel, Beirut. The team consisting of Dr Maha Shuayb, Nisrine Makouk, Dr Bassel Akar and Walid Hashisho delivered a presentation entitled: 'History Education in Lebanon: from brainwashing and pacifying to empowering students'. The team carried out a comparative study which examined the impact of two different approaches to teaching history: the first emphasizes a content knowledge and didactic approach to history teaching and is practiced in the majority of Lebanese schools. The second approach adopts an inquiry and skills based approach to learning history. The comparative study examined the impact of these two approaches on students' motivation, engagement, perception to history education, and ability to develop their analytical skills. |
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March 21, 2011 - 'Education for social cohesion project' - Strategy Planning day |
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Part of the 'Education for social cohesion project', a strategy planning day took place on the 21st of March. The event aimed at designing a plan for addressing the main challenges encountered by teachers at a public school. The event was designed and delivered by the 'extra-curricular committee' at the school, headed by Ms Fatema Bazi. Despite the absence of any incentives by the Ministry of Education, teachers in this public school used their own personal time to think of ways to develop their school's performance. Implementation of the plan will be supported by the teaching and learning committee recently developed at the school and the extra-curricular committee at the school. |
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March 1, 2011 - 'Was Beirut a Levantine City, and is it still?', Philip Mansel |
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Dr. Mansel, who made his reputation as a historian and authority on nineteenth century France, and later wrote two excellent works on Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire, has very recently published a highly acclaimed book entitled 'Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean' where the Levant is seen through the history of three key cities, Smyrna (now Izmir), Alexandria and Beirut.
The book examines the ways in which these Levantine cities which sat on the frontline between the Ottoman Empire and Europe reflected dialogues between East and West, and challenged stereotypes about cosmopolitanism, coexistence and nationalism, by allowing all of them to flourish. In their review of 'Levant', the Sunday Telegraph said 'the strengths of the book are colossal', while the Financial Times writer said 'he could scarcely put down this magnificent book'. The Economist called it 'a highly enjoyable and intricately worked account of three great Mediterranean ports'. Finally Patrick Seale appearing on the BBC said the book was 'eloquent and moving... a song of lamentation for a lost cosmopolitan world'.
While writing 'Levant' Philip Mansel lived in Beirut and Istanbul. He also writes for the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. |
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January 31, 2011 - 'How Lebanon Mirrors the Middle East: Gridlock, Conflict or Consensus?', Rami Khoury |
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Rami's appointment in 2005 as the Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut follows a long career in journalism in the Middle East, especially in Jordan and Lebanon where he still serves as editor at large of the Beirut- based Daily Star newspaper. His journalistic work includes an internationally syndicated column and he has also written for the Financial Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. In 2001-2002 he spent the academic year as a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and was appointed a member of the Brookings Institute Task Force on US Relations with the Islamic World. He is a research associate at the Program on the Analysis of Resolution of Conflict at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School. He also serves on the board of the East-West Institute, the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He often comments on Mideast issues in the international media and lectures frequently at conferences and universities throughout the world. |
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