Table of Contents

Introduction: Post-conflict reconciliation and joint history textbook projects, Simone Lässig; Peace education and joint history textbook projects, Karina V. Korostelina 1. From textbook comparison to common textbooks? Changing patterns in international textbook revision, Georg Stöber 2. Symbol or Reality? The background, implementation and development of the Franco-German history textbook, Corine Defrance and Ulrich Pfeil 3. Overcoming the national framework of teaching media – Binational teacher’s books and multinational teaching materials, Robert Maier 4. Towards a joint German-Polish history textbook – Historical roots, structures and challenges, Simone Lässig and Thomas Strobel 5. Forging a common narrative in Former Yugoslavia – The design, implementation and impact of the Scholars’ Initiative, Charles Ingrao 6. Reconnecting history – The Joint History Project in the Balkans, Lubov Fajfer 7. History as a project of the future – The European history textbook debate, Falk Pingel 8. Learning each other’s historical narrative – A road map to peace in Israel/Palestine?, Achim Rohde 9. The Tbilisi Initiative – The story of an unpublished textbook, Karina Korostelina 10. Striving for common history textbooks in Northeast Asia (China, South Korea and Japan) – Between ideal and reality, Daqing Yang and Ju-Back Sin 11. Best Practice Models and Scholarly Concepts: Theoretical and Methodological Framework for Joint History Projects, Karina Korostelina

About the Author

Karina V. Korostelina is Associate Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Director of the Program on History, Memory, and Conflict at George Mason University, USA.

Simone Lässig is Director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Braunschweig, Germany.