Marc Gopin

Marc Gopin
James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution & Director, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
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Ph.D., 1992, Brandeis University
Dept. of near Eastern and Judaic Studies Dissertation Topic: The Religious Ethics of Samuel David Luzzatto
M.A., 1988, Brandeis University
Dept. of near Eastern and Judaic Studies
B.A., 1979, Columbia College
Major: European Intellectual History

Biography

Marc Gopin is the James H. Laue Professor of Religion, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, and the Director of the Center on Religion, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Gopin has lectured on conflict resolution in Switzerland, Ireland, India, Italy, and Israel, as well as at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and numerous other academic institutions. Gopin has trained thousands of people worldwide in peacemaking strategies for complex conflicts in which religion and culture play a role. He conducts research on values dilemmas as they apply to international problems of globalization, clash of cultures, development, social justice and conflict.

Gopin has engaged in back channel diplomacy with religious, political and military figures on both sides of conflicts, especially in the Arab/Israeli conflict. He has appeared on numerous media outlets, including CNN, CNN International, Court TV, The Jim Lehrer News Hour, Israel Radio, National Public Radio, The Connection, Voice of America, and the national public radios of Sweden, Ireland, and Northern Ireland. He has been published in 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, regarding issues of conflict resolution, religion and violence.

Gopin’s research is found in numerous book chapters and journal articles,



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Awards and Honors
Andrew Thomas Peacebuilder Award
Recipient of the 2008 Andrew Thomas Peace builder Award, New York State Dispute resolution Association (NYSDRA).
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Examines how world religions play a role in conflict and conflict resolution. Investigates how values, world view, and hermeneutics influence...
Explores major historical and contemporary positions on the intellectual, moral, and religious foundations for...
Introductory skill-building course integrating conflict theory and practice using reflective practitioner model. Students learn necessary skills...
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In-depth field study of ongoing conflict situations, and design and delivery of intervention processes to manage or...
Analyzes ways world religions play role in conflicts, war, diplomacy, peace making, and conflict resolution. ...
Taken in last semester of master’s student course work. Assists in developing students’ own theories of conflict and conflict...
Examines selected topics relating to analysis or resolution of conflict. Topics vary but may include historical...
Covers conflict at macro level, introducing theories of international and global violence and conflict, drawing from...
Covers conflict at mezzo level, introducing theories of social harmony and conflict, drawing on sociology, social...
This course focuses on advanced consideration of CONF 101 topics, provides an introduction of the core notion of reflective practice, conflict...
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September 29, 2016
Conflict can be a difficult concept to understand. You cannot just consider the logical reasons behind the confrontation. You must also understand the feelings and identity issues of the parties. Some people thrive on the toxic environment conflict creates, or...
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2012
Peace between Arabs and Jews seems forever out of reach, both sides caught in a never-ending cycle of violence and revenge. But while treaties and other top-down solutions have had little lasting effect, peacemakers on the ground are creating real change-within...
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May 08, 2012
Marc Gopin analyzes the transformation of personal discourses of people involved in peacemaking and peacebuilding activities. Through analysis of interviews it shows the ways that discourses of peace replace discourses of hatred and revenge through the formation...
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December 10, 2011
Self-reflection is a major mechanism of learning from experience and an indispensable ingredient of self-development. In this chapter, it is shown how spiritual peacemakers, capitalizing on prosocial elements of their identity and tradition and...
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2009
To Make the Earth Whole studies the art of citizen diplomacy process that can address clashes of religion and culture across regional lines even when traditional negotiations between governments can fail. Using a five year experiment in Syria as the central case...
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May 19, 2009
Over the past 25 years I’ve developed relationships across the Middle East; in Syria, specifically, over the past five years. While I traveled as a peacemaker, to be cautious I would emphasize my role as a professor and only reveal my role as a rabbi when...
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September 23, 2004
Rabbi and international mediator Marc Gopin presents an 8-step process-based on great religious traditions, philosophy, and psychology-for healing even the most destructive, and seemingly intractable, conflicts.For more than 20 years Marc Gopin has sought to...
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October 01, 2002
This volume follows closely on the heels of Gopin's first Oxford University Press book, Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking (2000), revisiting some of the themes covered there, but now focused on the three...
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April 11, 2002
The Intifada of 2000-2001 has demonstrated the end of an era of diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The style of peacemaking of the Olso Accords has been called into question by the facts on the ground. Elite forms of peacemaking that do not embrace the basic...
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October 01, 2001
There are a growing number of scholars and institution that recognize organized religion as a major factor in contemporary international conflicts. But recognition has yielded little regarding in-dept analysis of the nature religion role's in conflict, and it has...
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May 01, 2001
Forgiveness as a way of healing human relationships and solving human conflicts isa an age-old practice that appears in numerous religious traditions. There are problems, however, with defining what exactly this activity is or has been in these traditions, what...
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July 2000
Recent years have seen a meteoric rise in the power and importance of organized religion in many parts of the world. At the same time, there has been a significant increase in violence perpetrated in the name of religion. While much has been written on the...
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July 2000
An unprecedented level of paradoxical religious movement characterizes the contemporary era. On the one hand, there is a greater number of people than ever before who are expressing either a secular perspective on life or a view of their own religion that is...
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January 06, 2000
One of the most difficult challenges of intervening in and attempting to resolve a conflict is facing the question: Is this intervention making society better or worse? Am I preventing the perpetuation of a struggle that should persist, because one side of this...
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January 01, 2000
Presents a curriculum for high school and beyond, and deals with the application of Jewish values to the international and domestic political agenda. It is the story of Jewish commitment to the well-being of fellow Jews and to social justice for all humanity.
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January 01, 2000
Chapter IAlternative Global Futures In The Balance© Marc GopinAn unprecedented level of paradoxical religious movement characterizes the contemporary era. On the one hand, there is a greater number of people than ever before who are expressing either a...
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January 01, 2000
Chapter IIBetween Religion And Conflict Resolution: Mapping A New Field Of Study© Marc GopinEvery major religion of the world has expressed at some point, through its leaders and thinkers, a commitment to the value of peace, both in classical texts and modern...
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May 01, 1998
An Orthodox Embrace of Gentiles? Interfaith Tolerance in the Thought of S. D. Luzzatto and E. Benamozegh - Modern Judaism 18:2 Modern Judaism 18.2 (1998) 173-195 An Orthodox Embrace of Gentiles? Interfaith Tolerance in the Thought of S. D. Luzzatto and E....
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September 16, 2012
The shell shock to the West of the widespread demonstrations of rage against the United States, including the murder of
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September 12, 2012
There is a pervasive fear that is being spread by American, Israeli and Sunni Gulf leaders that the most dangerous
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August 08, 2012
Three days after a killer’s rampage left six members of a local Sikh temple dead in this Milwaukee suburb, Tim
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July 10, 2012
Events are so fast-paced in revolutions and wars that there is scarcely a breath taken to anticipate the next stages
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June 25, 2012
Tourism is a business involving a billion people a year meeting several other billion people whose lives they
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April 05, 2012
What is often forgotten or ignored in the talks of war with Iran are the two communities who are at the center of many
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February 21, 2012
Yesterday, Pastor Chuck Kopp of the Baptist Church in West Jerusalem woke up to find his church vandalized. The
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January 31, 2012
This is an important article on the stage we find ourselves in of the Syrian revolution. Russia’s defense to the
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January 30, 2012
National Geographic Expeditions’ partner for the Society’s new Holy Land: Past, Present, and Future
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January 25, 2012
A group drives up to the Mount of Olives and takes in the vista below: the Old City of Jerusalem; the Dome of the Rock
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Dissertation Proposal Defense - Laura VillanuevaLocal to Global Peace: Japanese civilians actively working for peaceWednesday, January 25, 201712:00pm - 2:00pmMetropolitan Building, room 5000Arlington Campus Committee:       Dr. Susan Allen (Chair)     
January 25, 2017
Nina Selwan's Dissertation Proposal DefensePeacebuilding Practice as Function of Practitioners’ Self-ReflectionThursday December 8th, 201610:00am - 12:00pmRoom 5183Committee members:Dr. Karyna Korostelina,Dr. Marc Gopin,Dr. Al FuertesSynopsis:The proposed research aims to explore the
December 08, 2016
Profesor Marc Gopin explains and explores the nature of violence in history, religion and society.
May 15, 2016
Marc Gopin is director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, and James H. Laue Professor at George Mason University. He studies the role that religion and culture play in conflicts and conflict resolution. In 2008 he received the Andrew Thomas Peacebuilder Award
May 15, 2016
S-CAR Salon: Ethical Dilemmas in Research and Practice  Marc Gopin and Daniel RothbartMonday, May 11th12:00pm - 1:30pmConference Room 5145How are we confronted implicitly and explicitly with ethical dilemmas in conflict resolution practice? What role do ethical dilemmas play in effective or
May 11, 2015
S-CAR Salon: Cognitions, Emotions and Mental Constructs, positive and negative Marc Gopin and Daniel RothbartPhilosophy, Conflict and Conflict ResolutionMonday, April 20th1:30-3:00pmRoom 5145 How do recent developments in psychology impact conflict resolution theory and practice?In the
April 20, 2015
S-CAR Salon: Human Rights - Marc Gopin and Daniel RothbartPhilosophy, Conflict and Conflict Resolution**Wednesday, March 25**1:30-3:00pmRoom 5145 (Please note the date change from March 18th to March 25th)While the occurrence of human rights violations seems tragically clear, the careful
March 25, 2015
Please join S-CAR in welcoming author Menachem Klein, to present on his book Lives in CommonThis event is co-sponsored by Program on Healing Historical Memory and the Center for World Religions and Diplomacy (CRDC).  The event will be moderated by Joseph Montville. Book Review
March 24, 2015
S-CAR Salon:  Marc Gopin and Daniel Rothbart Please see the video below to watch the session.  
February 18, 2015
S-CAR Salon: Language and Communications February 2nd1:30pm - 3:00pmMetropolitan Building, Room 5145 How do the quandaries of our field demand attention to uncertainties over language and definition of terms, such as justice, reconciliation, empathy, peacebuilding, and truth telling?
February 02, 2015
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Dr. Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, president and managing director of Kommon Denominator, Inc., and Dr. Marc Gopin, Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, are the first two “Frontiers in Peacebuilding” speakers. The lectures
May 09, 2016
Webinar: “Forging Alliances for Peace: Insights from a Conflict Resolution Scholar-Practitioner”For those interested in being physically present, the event will take place at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Truland Building, Room 555, 3330 Washington Blvd, Arlington, VA
May 06, 2013
We all know Marc as a noted scholar and spiritual peacemaker, but I bet most of you didn’t know about his other artistic sideline.Make sure you watch both videos!
October 16, 2009
Professor Marc Gopin gives a speech in the Assad Library in Damascus.Sponsored by The Syrian Canadian Women's Club In Cooperation with The Economical Orient Group Companies and the Syrian Public Relations Association. Marc Gopin is the James H. Laue Professor of Religion, Diplomacy and Conflict
January 06, 2005
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