1001 Nights Civic and Peace Education Program

The 1001 Nights Life Skills Civic Education Program (LSCE) is a multi-platform educational entertainment program that uses cartoons to teach 6 to 12-year old children life skills and civic values, including non-violence, human rights, democracy, gender equality and the rule of law, in formal and informal learning environments. The program is based upon a very popular and award-winning animated television series called 1001 Nights, which airs as commercial entertainment in over 70 countries to a global audience of over 100 million people on premier television networks, including Disney, Cartoon Network, Al Jazeera Children’s Channel and Discovery Kids. In 50 countries, including all those in the MENA, it is one of the three most popular family programs on television, reaching up to 25% of the population when it airs.

2018 WISE Award Recipient

Data on Program Impact

White papers

– Promoting Inclusion and Tolerance Using 1001 Nights
Submitted to International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), 2019By Shalom M. Fisch (President, MediaKidz Research & Consulting)
– Countering Trauma of Refugees with 1001 Nights Curriculum

Submitted to Journal of International Development, 2020
By Robert Jenkins, Global Chief of Education, UNICEF, and Dr. Lydia Wilson, University of Oxford, Center for Resolution of Intractable Conflict

– 1001 Nights: Using Media to Foster Socioemotional Development

Presented to the International Communication Association, 2018
By Shalom M. Fisch (President, MediaKidz Research & Consulting)
– Building Resilience to Radicalisation in MENA Evidence Session
Testimony to U.K. Parliament, 2016
By Aly Jetha (CEO, Big Bad Boo)
– Pedagogical Approach of 1001 Nights Curriculum

Submitted as Independent White Paper
By Shalom M. Fisch (President, MediaKidz Research & Consulting)
– Independent Analysis of Big Bad Boo’s Business Strategy

Submitted to Journal of Interactions: Studies in Communications & Culture, 2013
By Lindsay Hogan (Assistant Professor, Boston College) and Matt Sienkiewicz (Associate Professor, Boston College)