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Name
  
Marc Gopin

Role
  
Professor

Education
  
Brandeis University


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Books
  
Holy War - Holy Peace, Between Eden and Armageddon, Healing the Heart of Conflict, To Make the Earth Whole: T, Bridges Across an Impossibl

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Marc Gopin, scholar and practitioner, is the director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC), and James H. Laue Professor at the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University Arlington, Virginia, USA. The Association of Conflict Resolution recently awarded Gopin The Peacemaker Award for his contribution to the Conflict Resolution Field. Note that, in 2008 he also received the Andrew Thomas Peacebuilder Award from the New York State Dispute Resolution Association (NYSDRA). Gopin has pioneered peacebuilding projects at CRDC and trained thousands of peacebuilders in Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Palestine and Israel on strategies to address complex conflicts. He studies dilemmas of values in global conflicts and diverse contexts where religion and culture play a crucial role in conflicts and conflict resolution.

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Gopin's particular emphasis is on the role of religion and culture in not only key to conflict, but is critical to reaching lasting resolution between peoples and nations. Widely recognized for his lectures and training on peacemaking strategies, Gopin has worked in Ireland, Israel, India, Switzerland, and Italy, and has presented at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. He has also engaged in back channel diplomacy with religious, political, and military figures on both sides of entrenched conflicts, especially in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Jordan, and Syria

He has appeared on numerous media outlets, including CNN, CNN International, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Arabiyah, The Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, Voice of America, and the national public radios of Sweden and Northern Ireland. He has been published in numerous publications, including the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and his work has been featured in news stories of the Times of London, the Times of India, Associated Press, and Newhouse News Service on issues of religion, violence, and conflict.

His latest research is summarized in his 2015 TED talk titled "Peace steps: one rabbi’s life journey into the heart of his enemies". He also has a series of Op-Eds/Huffington Posts http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/marcgopin-358Dr. Gopin has several thousand readers from every section of the globe, through his Facebook community, blog community, and the readership of CRDC.

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Education

Gopin got his B.A. in European Intellectual History from Colombia College in 1979. In 1983, Gopin was ordained as a rabbi at Yeshiva University, where he was a student of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. Though ordained as an Orthodox rabbi, he eventually stopped identifying with any Jewish denomination. He received his M.A. from Brandeis University in 1988 where he also got his PhD in 1992 from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. His dissertation Topic: The Religious Ethics of Samuel David Luzzatto.

Published Works

  • Gopin, Marc (2016). Healing the Heart of Conflict: Eight Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and with Others Revised and Updated. Create Space Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 1536833428.
  • Gopin, Marc (2012). Bridges across an Impossible Divide: The Inner Lives of Arab and Jewish Peacemakers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199916986. 
  • To Make the Earth Whole: Citizen Diplomacy in the Age of Religious Militancy. Rowman and Littlefield. 2009. ISBN 9780742558632. 
  • Changing Course: A New Direction for US Relations with the Muslim World, co-author and member of Leadership Group (US Muslim Engagement Project, Washington DC, Cambridge, MA, September 2008)
  • Gopin, Marc (2004). Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others. Rodale Press. ISBN 9781579547936. 
  • "Judaism and Peacebuilding in Religion and Peacebuilding, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004
  • Gopin, Marc (2002). Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195146509. 
  • Gopin, Marc (2001). Religion and International Relations at the Crossroads. International Studies Review, 3(3), 157-160.
  • Gopin, Marc (2000). Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195157253. 
  • Gopin, Marc (1998). An Orthodox Embrace of Gentiles? Interfaith Tolerance in the Thought of S. D. Luzzatto and E. Benamozegh. Modern Judaism, 18(2), 173-195.
  • Overseas Seminars

  • Reflective Practice in Israel/Palestine (CONF 620/695/385 – 3 credits) January 1 – 9, 2017
  • Field Work with Syrian Refugees in Jordan (CONF 695/385 – 3 credits) March 11 – 19, 2017
  • Field Work with Syrian Refugees in Jordan (CONF 695/385 – 3 credits) August 13–21, 2016
  • Approaches to Conflict Management and Resolution: Field Work with Syrian Refugees in Jordan (CONF 695/385 – 3 credits) (Spring Break – March 5 – 13, 2016)
  • Reflective Practice in Israel Palestine (CONF 620/695/385 – 3 credits) with Dr. Marc Gopin, Winter Break – January 4 – 12, 2016
  • Turkey: (CONF 695/385–3 credits): Nine days working with Syrian activists and refugees (Spring break – March 7 – 15, 2015)
  • Reflective Practice in Israel/Palestine (CONF 620/695/385–3 credits) with Dr. Marc Gopin (Winter break – January 7 – 15, 2015)
  • Turkey: (CONF 695/385–3 credits): Nine days working with Syrian activists and refugees (August 16 – 24, 2014)
  • Reflective Practice in Israel/Palestine (CONF 620/695/385) with Dr. Marc Gopin (January 8 – 16, 2014)
  • Reflective Practice in Israel/Palestine (CONF 620/695/385) with Dr. Marc Gopin (January 6–14, 2013)
  • Turkey: (CONF 695/385–3 credits): Nine days working with Syrian activists and refugees with Dr. Marc Gopin, integrating conflict resolution with methods of nonviolent social change (Spring Break 2013)
  • Egypt: (CONF 695/385–3 credits): Lessons for Nonviolent Change from the Social Network Revolution with Dr. Marc Gopin (Spring Break: March 9–18, 2012)
  • Reflective Practice in Israel/Palestine (CONF 713 / 3 credits) with Dr. Marc Gopin (January 6–14, 2012)
  • References

    Marc Gopin Wikipedia