JBS International., Washington DC

Evaluation of the Joint History Project (JHP) in Southeast Europe of the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Thessaloniki. The study was commissioned by the Social Transition Team, Office of Democracy, Governance and Social Transition of USAID,DC and contracted to CREDA by JBS International., Washington DC. The JHP is a large-scale regional initiative active in Albania, BiH, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey aiming at developing and applying a new history teaching method and materials, that will stimulate overcoming ethnocentric history education of young generations and expand their critical thinking, based on understanding multi-perspectivity of history interpretations.  The evaluation has outlined the effectiveness of the regional process of joint development of teaching materials and their application, identified levels of impact and lessons from best practice that can serve donors programming in education and reconciliation in other regions and cultural settings. Final report “Out of the Broken Mirror: Learning for Reconciliation through Multi-perspective History teaching”.