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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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Marc Gopin: Published
A Reflective Practitioner’s 40-Year Wilderness Journey Between Judaism and Conflict Resolution
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,...

Category: Book Chapter
Marc Gopin: Published
To Make the Earth Whole
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...

Category: Book
Marc Gopin: Published
The Ghost of Cyrus: Persian Potential for Reform
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...

Category: Journal Article
Marc Gopin: Published
Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others
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...

Category: Book
Kevin Avruch, Marc Gopin: Published
Book Review: Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
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...

Category: Journal Article
Recent Activity
Marc Gopin: Published
A Reflective Practitioner’s 40-Year Wilderness Journey Between Judaism and Conflict Resolution
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,...

Category: Book Chapter
Marc Gopin: Published
To Make the Earth Whole
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...

Category: Book
Marc Gopin: Published
The Ghost of Cyrus: Persian Potential for Reform
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...

Category: Journal Article
Marc Gopin: Published
Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others
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...

Category: Book
Kevin Avruch, Marc Gopin: Published
Book Review: Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
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...

Category: Journal Article
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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...
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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...
Category: Journal Article
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...
Category: Book
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 28, 2001
Since the end of the Cold War several political agreements have been signed in attempts to resolve longstanding conflicts in such volatile regions as Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine, South Africa, and Rwanda. This is the first comprehensive volume that examines...
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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...
Category: Book Chapter
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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Marc Gopin: Published
A Reflective Practitioner’s 40-Year Wilderness Journey Between Judaism and Conflict Resolution
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,...

Category: Book Chapter
Marc Gopin: Published
To Make the Earth Whole
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...

Category: Book
Marc Gopin: Published
The Ghost of Cyrus: Persian Potential for Reform
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...

Category: Journal Article
Marc Gopin: Published
Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others
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...

Category: Book
Kevin Avruch, Marc Gopin: Published
Book Review: Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
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...

Category: Journal Article
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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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January 18, 2012
At the beginning of December 2011, the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason
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January 13, 2012
We are facing the beginnings of a Cuban Missile Crisis moment in the Straits of Hormuz, and without the proper
Category: Magazine Article

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Marc Gopin: Published
A Reflective Practitioner’s 40-Year Wilderness Journey Between Judaism and Conflict Resolution
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,...

Category: Book Chapter
Marc Gopin: Published
To Make the Earth Whole
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...

Category: Book
Marc Gopin: Published
The Ghost of Cyrus: Persian Potential for Reform
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...

Category: Journal Article
Marc Gopin: Published
Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others
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...

Category: Book
Kevin Avruch, Marc Gopin: Published
Book Review: Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
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...

Category: Journal Article
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Under the supervision of the American Consulate General in Jerusalem, and with Ta’awan, A Palestinian Nonprofit OrganizationThe Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution “CRDC” at George Mason University is sponsoring a discussion on the Palestinian statehood
October 25, 2011
JOIN US FOR:“AN EVENING WITH CRDC” Come learn about our Center and the Overseas Classes that we offer from the faculty that lead the trips!  We will be hearing from Dr. Marc Gopin and Dr. Leslie Dwyer about the trips that they lead overseas!  We will also hear from students
September 22, 2011
Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube may not be the reason for the wave of democratic revolution sweeping across Northern Africa and the Middle East, but it is certainly the platform for giving voice to a previously unheard public outcry.
April 11, 2011
ICAR PhD student Cindy Mazur will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled:"Seven Days in the Crescent City: Kartina's Handlers, Crisist Discourse, and Story Lines." Abstract:
March 30, 2011
Dr. Kreisberg will examine Barack Obama administration’s mediation efforts in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from a constructive conflict approach,
March 05, 2010
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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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Recent Activity
Marc Gopin: Published
A Reflective Practitioner’s 40-Year Wilderness Journey Between Judaism and Conflict Resolution
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,...

Category: Book Chapter
Marc Gopin: Published
To Make the Earth Whole
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...

Category: Book
Marc Gopin: Published
The Ghost of Cyrus: Persian Potential for Reform
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...

Category: Journal Article
Marc Gopin: Published
Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others
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...

Category: Book
Kevin Avruch, Marc Gopin: Published
Book Review: Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
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...

Category: Journal Article
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Recent Activity
Marc Gopin: Published
A Reflective Practitioner’s 40-Year Wilderness Journey Between Judaism and Conflict Resolution
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,...

Category: Book Chapter
Marc Gopin: Published
To Make the Earth Whole
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...

Category: Book
Marc Gopin: Published
The Ghost of Cyrus: Persian Potential for Reform
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...

Category: Journal Article
Marc Gopin: Published
Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others
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...

Category: Book
Kevin Avruch, Marc Gopin: Published
Book Review: Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
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...

Category: Journal Article
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Examines how world religions play a role in conflict and conflict resolution. Investigates how values, world view, and hermeneutics influence...
Introductory skill-building course integrating conflict theory and practice using reflective practitioner model. Students learn necessary skills...
Topics vary; they are announced each academic year.
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...
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Marc Gopin: Published
A Reflective Practitioner’s 40-Year Wilderness Journey Between Judaism and Conflict Resolution
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,...

Category: Book Chapter
Marc Gopin: Published
To Make the Earth Whole
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...

Category: Book
Marc Gopin: Published
The Ghost of Cyrus: Persian Potential for Reform
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...

Category: Journal Article
Marc Gopin: Published
Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others
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...

Category: Book
Kevin Avruch, Marc Gopin: Published
Book Review: Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
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...

Category: Journal Article
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