Marc Gopin

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[1] Arlington, Virginia, USA. The Association of Conflict Resolution[2] recently awarded Gopin The Peacemaker Award[3] 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[4] (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.[5] He studies dilemmas of values in global conflicts and diverse contexts where religion and culture play a crucial role in conflicts and conflict resolution.

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.[6] 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[7]

Education

Gopin got his B.A. in European Intellectual History from Columbia College in 1979. In 1983, Gopin was ordained as a rabbi at Yeshiva University, where he was a student of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik.[8] 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.[9] 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. Marc_Gopin.
  • "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. Marc_Gopin.
  • 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[10], 18(2), 173–195.

References
  1. "Marc Gopin - Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict ResolutionCenter for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution". crdc.gmu.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
  2. "Association for Conflict Resolution Leadership". My Site. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
  3. "2016 Award Recipients". www.acrannualconference.org. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  4. "Awards - New York State Dispute Resolution Association, Inc". www.nysdra.org. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  5. "Marc Gopin | The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution". scar.gmu.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  6. "Changing Course: a new Direction for U.S. Relations With the Muslim World" (PDF). U.S. Muslim Engagement Project.
  7. "Marc Gopin | The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution". scar.gmu.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
  8. Lauren Gelfond Feldinger (January 21, 2010). "The Lonely Man of Peace". The Jerusalem Post.
  9. Gopin, Marc. Healing the Heart of Conflict: Eight Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and with Others Revised and Updated. ISBN 1536833428.
  10. Gopin, Marc (1998). "An Orthodox Embrace of Gentiles? Interfaith Tolerance in the Thought of S. D. Luzzatto and E. Benamozegh". Modern Judaism: 173–195.
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