Abstract
Daring to Teach the Civil War in Lebanon
Highlights
On March 10, 2012, several people were injured in clashes between protesters and security forces in Beirut during a rally organized by the Kataeb Party’s and the National Liberal Party’s student sections
The political parties included in the study are the Free Patriotic Movement, the Future Movement, Hezbollah, the Lebanese Kataeb Party, the Lebanese Forces, the Progressive Socialist Party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party
When discussing with political party representatives how and why they remember the past through educational approaches, we identify a conceptual tension between building a collective memory and keeping different interpretations of the past for discussion
Summary
On March 10, 2012, several people were injured in clashes between protesters and security forces in Beirut during a rally organized by the Kataeb Party’s and the National Liberal Party’s student sections. One of the main reasons of protest was that the ‘Islamic Resistance’ against Israel was to be mentioned in the history textbooks, while the ‘Lebanese Resistance’ against the Palestinians and Syrians was to be excluded. Another attempt to revise the history curriculum failed, leaving the prewar curriculum of 1971 in place, which only covers the history of Lebanon until its independence in 1943. Political parties make great efforts to foster particular narratives of the past in their cultures of remembrance that often reveal contrasting and conflicting interpretations of historical events. The challenge remains to map out an urgently needed new history curriculum that includes Lebanon’s contemporary history and does not act as a tripwire to violence and conflict
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