A novel catalyst for the Cyprus solution
| 1. Do you think this school could exist in the current situation? 2. Do you think it could expedite a political settlement to the Cyprus problem even if that means the settlement would occur 10-15 years after the school's opening? |
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 Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:36 am |
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| Mills Chapman |
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Hi Humanist,
Thanks for the reply again and also for the encouragement to change the status quo and to continue with this. I realize that the majority of people are not satisfied with the existing situation.
The school itself would probably be a non-profit organization funded by the international community (both public donors like the EU and private ones like the Gates Foundation) while hopefully being of minimal or no cost to the parents. While I may not make “a profit,” I do hope that it would provide a salaried job for me, a salary comparable to my other colleagues working at this proposed school. My interest would be in training the teachers. The school would certainly be in the Nicosia area in a place accessible to both sides.
I hope I stay away from my country's army too. 
At the end of my last message, one of the two links is dead. Here is an updated one: http://www.1for2.org/aswellaspeermediationandcre/peermediationandconflictresolutioneducationcre.html .
Also, I slightly updated www.cypriotschool.org . www.1for2.org is to draw in the global interest and money (with there being applications to resolving other conflicts), but www.cypriotschool.org will be designed with the school’s parents, teachers, and students in mind. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:30 pm |
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Hello everyone. I thank those of you who have been following this thread and who have probably been wondering why I am moving so slowly on this concept. I'm still committed to it, but as I stated in a previous post on this thread, I decided to tend first to some other things whose closure I sensed would give me more clarity and perseverance for tackling this proposal.
I'm still working on settling those other affairs (not related to Cyprus) while also teaching in my regular job at a school, but for now, I thought I would update you with my latest summary on my website: http://www.1for2.org/4extendedsummary.html . Have a look around if you want and check out the site map: http://www.1for2.org/2sitemap.html . A lot of it might look amateurish, but I'm not a professional web designer, and I'm not ready to communicate to a willing web designer all of the intracacies that will make this proposal work. I do hope to be there at some point.
So, I hope everyone who has encouraged me so far is doing well. Today's a big day for all of you, and I'm following the elections from over here in the US.
Cheers, Mills |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:24 am |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:07 am |
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Hi Filitsa,
Thanks for your post on this thread. I'm very much familiar with SoP. There are several weaknesses with them compared to this:
- SoP meets one week during the summer and mostly online the rest of the year, as opposed to The Cypriot School students meeting 5 days a week, 9 months during the year, and for 16 years
- SoP uses teenage participants, who have already been negatively "socialized" through schooling, the media, and family experiences for many years - as opposed to The Cypriot School starting with two-year-olds who have a clean slate (no need to waste time undoing negative socialization, like talking about all the things they heard about the other side while growing up)
- SoP does most of its stuff away from the students' home environment (at least the face-to-face part), whereas this school would be embedded in the most sensitive part of Cyprus - the buffer zone
- SoP does not specifically target for enrollment the children of Cyprus's leading politicians - this school would (for 50% of its student body). What type of day school would entice both the RoC leaders and the "TRNC" leaders into sending their very own children to it? I'll be covering all aspects such as how history and language would be taught in my proposal.
As you can see, it's complicated! Have a good day, Filitsa.
Sincerely, Mills |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:57 pm |
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Hello, everyone. In case any of you are on Facebook, in addition to Cyprus Forum of course, you are welcome to join my group, The Cypriot School.
Cheers, Mills  |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:36 pm |
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| YES IT SHOULD HAPPEN. GREAT IDEA |
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