Marc Gopin 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
George Mason University (GMU) is a Public university, public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., the university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father ...
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The Association for Conflict Resolution awarded Gopin its Peacemaker Award for his contribution to the conflict resolution field. Gopin also received the Andrew Thomas Peacebuilder Award from the New York State Dispute Resolution Association.
Gopin designed
peacebuilding projects for the
CRDC. These projects included training peacebuilders in Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Palestine and Israel.
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 diplomacy with religious, political, and military figures on both sides of entrenched conflicts, especially in the
Israel-Palestine conflict, Jordan, and Syria.
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
Yeshiva University is a Private university, private Modern Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City. , where he was a student of Rabbi
Joseph Soloveitchik. He received his M.A. from
Brandeis University
Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra ...
in 1988 where he also got his PhD in 1992 from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
Published Works
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*Gopin, Marc (2016)
Healing the Heart of Conflict: Eight Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and with Others Revised and Updated.
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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)
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*"Judaism and Peacebuilding in ''Religion and Peacebuilding,'' Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004
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*Gopin, Marc (2001). Religion and International Relations at the Crossroads. ''International Studies Review,'' ''3''(3), 157–160.
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*Gopin, Marc (1998). An Orthodox Embrace of Gentiles? Interfaith Tolerance in the Thought of S. D. Luzzatto and E. Benamozegh. ''Modern Judaism''
References
External links
Marc Gopin's BlogMarc Gopin bioSchool for Conflict Analysis and ResolutionCenter for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
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George Mason University faculty
Peace and conflict scholars
Brandeis University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)