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"Our
Colombian connection began in 2006," says Raul Drachman, an economist in
the Kishurim group. "Colombia was looking for ways to rehabilitate what
they call 'populations in extreme need' - mainly FARC [Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia - People's Army] fighters who'd lived outside society for
years and were now trying to return. We estimate that some 6,000 to 10,000
guerillas have come out of the jungle in the past seven years, many of whom
lack the basic educational and social skills that they need to
reintegrate."
"What they
learn is 'dialogue thinking and argumentation,' " says Reuma De Groot,
who is responsible for Kishurim's development and pedagogy. "This is a
technique developed by our education, psychology, cognition and computer
experts that teaches dialogue, argumentative [reasoning] interaction and
critical thinking in a classroom framework."
While the
program had been used extensively in Israeli classrooms, the former Colombian
rebels presented a far more rigorous test of Kishurim's approach. But
Digalo's online discussions, with its graphic displays "mapping"
the points, succeeded. "The dynamic interplay of arguments improved the
quality of the discussion," says Kishurim head professor Baruch Shwartz.
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