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After educating ourselves, raising awareness and sensitivity in others is the most effective means we have for promoting tolerance. Here you will find a wide selection of educational resources and pedagogic guides to help you inspire others toward lives of conscience and compassionate action.    

Genocide

This handbook, prepared by the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, provides guidelines for educators on how to teach the Holocaust to young...
This is an educational program dedicated to enhance the tools of Holocaust education for children in the non-Western world. The aim of the program is to encourage dialogue between Jewish and Muslim...
These guidelines provide suggestions for teachers and other educators who feel the need to address issues pertaining to contemporary anti-Semitism. Recognizing that the context may vary in every...
This resource includes educational materials on art and the Holocaust separated into the following four categories: art created by the victims, art created by the Nazis, outside art, and remembrance/...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum’s International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust was established by the Polish Government on the initiative of former prisoners. The...

Minority Rights

This report prepared by Minority Rights Group International examines the status and treatment of minority ethnic and religious groups in nine Middle Eastern countries in 2013. It documents specific...
This four-part lesson plan details the long history of the Iranian Jewish community, as a companion to a museum exhibit on the same subject at UCLA. The subject is divided into four units, which...
This section of PBS' Global Connections resource focuses on the Middle East, exploring the past 100 years of history as well as information on religion, ethnic and cultural diversity in this...
Borne out of a critical analysis of current resources and lesson plans, this resource consists of 15 lesson plans to help US World History high school educators teach about the ethnic, religious and...
Scholars from the University of Chicago developed this teacher resource to provide an overview of Middle Eastern cultures and their contributions to the world. This resource contains illuminating...

Tolerance

This publication by Teaching Respect for All, a joint project of UNESCO, the United States, and Brazil, is a guide for policymakers, school and NGO administrators, and educators on how to counteract...
This activity guide prepared by EdChange provides suggestions for teachers working with their students on building tolerance, understanding, and respect for others. It advises setting mutually-agreed...

About Tavaana

Tavaana: E-Learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society is Iran’s pioneer e-learning institute. Tavaana – meaning ‘empowered’ and ‘capable’ in Persian – was launched on May 17, 2010 with a mission to support active citizenship and civic leadership in Iran through a multi-platform civic education and civil society capacity building program. Tavaana holds a vision for a free and open Iranian society, one in which each and every Iranian enjoys equality, justice and the full spectrum of civil and political liberties.

About The Tolerance Project

The Tolerance Project aims to inspire conscience, pluralism, religious freedom, and celebration of difference. Using an array of educational materials in Arabic, Persian, and English, The Tolerance Project emphasizes the capacity of each and every individual to counter hate, and imparts the benefits of living in tolerant, open societies. The Tolerance Project educates to prevent persecution and genocide, cultivating the basis for vibrant and stable societies in the broader Middle East.

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