Workshop in Istanbul, 10-12 November 2005:

Learning about the Other
and Teaching for Tolerance
in Muslim Majority Societies

From 10-12 November2005, the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief in cooperation with the Centre for Values Education (Istanbul ) held a workshop in Istanbul on “Learning about the Other and Teaching for Tolerance in Muslim Majority Societies”. The workshop was part of the Oslo Coalition project "Teaching for tolerance" and brought together approximately 25 experts from Bosnia, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Switzerland and Turkey.

In May 2007, the Centre for Valures Education together with the Oslo Coalition published a book with papers from the conference, under the title Teaching for Tolerance in Muslim Majority Societies (eds. Recep Kaymakcan and Oddbjørn Leirvik, see list of contents and preface). The book may be ordered from the Oslo Coalition.

For participants: go to program and papers (log-in with username and password).

Background material for the workshop can also be found on the project webpage Country reports and regional overviews which contains papers from earlier meetings on the issue of tolerance education in Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, Palestine and Turkey as well as two overview presentations:

• Oddbjørn Leirvik (2004): Religious Education, Communal Identity and National Politics in the Muslim World
• Wolfram Reiss (2004): Education for Religious Tolerance in the Middle East