Marc Gopin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4141105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Gopin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopin |
| SIGNATURE | GOPIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3636-5899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Role of Identity and Religion in Peace Processes
Identity and Religion in Peace Processes
Scholar and Peace Practitioner
This article reflects on the author’s life’s journey as a peace practitioner and scholar. Gopin recounts his lifelong quest to understand and mitigate violence in the world through peacebuilding, influenced by personal tragedies and extensive study in religious and philosophical ethics. His peacebuilding interventions in war zones have shaped his interdisciplinary approach to conflict resolution, integrating philosophical ethics, neuroscience, an…
Compassion, Science, and the Search for Meaning
Bridges across an Impossible Divide
This book offers an exploration of Arab/Israeli peace partnerships: unlikely friendships created among people who have long been divided by bitter resentments, deep suspicions, and violent sorrows. The book shows how the careful examination of their inner spiritual lives has enabled Jewish and Arab individuals to form peace partnerships, and that these partnerships may someday lead to peaceful coexistence. The peacemakers in this book have no for…
To Make the Earth Whole
To Make the Earth Whole studies the art of citizen diplomacy_a process that can address clashes of religion and culture across regional lines even when traditional negotiations between governments can fail. While faith and regional differences have been sources of division around the world in recent decades, millions of citizens are also creating bonds of friendship and collaboration that are forming the basis of a global community. Drawing on th…
On the Middle East
Distrust between adversaries makes retreat into isolation a temptation, so globalinter-faith peacemaking needs to invest in religious gestures and justice. Leaders honor opponents' values by making religious gestures. Social justice must accompany these gestures, offering alienated people fulfillment of their needs so that they turn to peacemakers and not to extremists. Any criticism during conflict must be an objective critique of both sides com…
Holy War, Holy Peace
PART I: ANALYSIS 1. The Interaction between Religion and Culture in Peace and Conflict 2. Family Myths and Cultural Conflict 3. Political and Mythic Interdependencies 4. Patterns of Abrahamic Incrimination 5. Conflict, Injury, and Transformation PART II: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS 6. Patterns of Abrahamic Reconciliation: Act, Ritual, and Symbol as Transformation 7. The Use of the Word and Its Limits: Dialogue as Peacemaking 8. Ritual Civility, Moral …
Holy War, Holy Peace
In 1993, when Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin sealed the Oslo peace agreement, it was heralded as the beginning of a new era in the Middle East peace process. Instead, violence on both sides has continued to plague the region. The brutal facts on the ground have called into question the style of diplomacy that saw its greatest triumph with the Oslo Accords. This book asserts that the failure of the peace process stems in large part from its compl…
Between Eden and Armageddon
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 relationship between violence and religious militancy, history shows that religious people have also played a critical role in peacemaking within numerous cultures. In the new century, will rel…
An Orthodox Embrace of Gentiles? Interfaith Tolerance in the Thought of S. D. Luzzatto and E. Benamozegh
Journal Article AN ORTHODOX EMBRACE OF GENTILES? INTERFAITH TOLERANCE IN THE THOUGHT OF S. D. LUZZATTO AND E. BENAMOZEGH Get access Marc Gopin Marc Gopin GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 2, May 1998, Pages 173–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/18.2.173 Published: 01 May 1998
Religion, Violence, and Conflict Resolution
Religion has a dual legacy in human history regarding peace and violence. Conflict resolution theory must examine more systematically the decision‐making of religious actors and leaders in order for strategies of peacemaking to be effective in the relevant contexts. It is the argument here that the study of religion and conflict resolution will yield an important new field of inquiry. A series of topics need to be addressed, including the mixture…
Religion, Violence, and Conflict Resolution
Religion has a dual legacy in human history regarding peace and violence. Conflict resolution theory must examine more systematically the decision‐making of religious actors and leaders in order for strategies of peacemaking to be effective in the relevant contexts. It is the argument here that the study of religion and conflict resolution will yield an important new field of inquiry. A series of topics need to be addressed, including the mixture…
Religion, Violence, and Conflict Resolution
Religion has a dual legacy in human history regarding peace and violence. Conflict resolution theory must examine more systematically the decision‐making of religious actors and leaders in order for strategies of peacemaking to be effective in the relevant contexts. It is the argument here that the study of religion and conflict resolution will yield an important new field of inquiry. A series of topics need to be addressed, including the mixture…
An Orthodox Embrace of Gentiles? Interfaith Tolerance in the Thought of S. D. Luzzatto and E. Benamozegh
Journal Article AN ORTHODOX EMBRACE OF GENTILES? INTERFAITH TOLERANCE IN THE THOUGHT OF S. D. LUZZATTO AND E. BENAMOZEGH Get access Marc Gopin Marc Gopin GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 2, May 1998, Pages 173–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/18.2.173 Published: 01 May 1998
Between Eden and Armageddon
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 relationship between violence and religious militancy, history shows that religious people have also played a critical role in peacemaking within numerous cultures. In the new century, will rel…
Holy War, Holy Peace
In 1993, when Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin sealed the Oslo peace agreement, it was heralded as the beginning of a new era in the Middle East peace process. Instead, violence on both sides has continued to plague the region. The brutal facts on the ground have called into question the style of diplomacy that saw its greatest triumph with the Oslo Accords. This book asserts that the failure of the peace process stems in large part from its compl…
Holy War, Holy Peace
PART I: ANALYSIS 1. The Interaction between Religion and Culture in Peace and Conflict 2. Family Myths and Cultural Conflict 3. Political and Mythic Interdependencies 4. Patterns of Abrahamic Incrimination 5. Conflict, Injury, and Transformation PART II: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS 6. Patterns of Abrahamic Reconciliation: Act, Ritual, and Symbol as Transformation 7. The Use of the Word and Its Limits: Dialogue as Peacemaking 8. Ritual Civility, Moral …
On the Middle East
Distrust between adversaries makes retreat into isolation a temptation, so globalinter-faith peacemaking needs to invest in religious gestures and justice. Leaders honor opponents' values by making religious gestures. Social justice must accompany these gestures, offering alienated people fulfillment of their needs so that they turn to peacemakers and not to extremists. Any criticism during conflict must be an objective critique of both sides com…
To Make the Earth Whole
To Make the Earth Whole studies the art of citizen diplomacy_a process that can address clashes of religion and culture across regional lines even when traditional negotiations between governments can fail. While faith and regional differences have been sources of division around the world in recent decades, millions of citizens are also creating bonds of friendship and collaboration that are forming the basis of a global community. Drawing on th…
Bridges across an Impossible Divide
This book offers an exploration of Arab/Israeli peace partnerships: unlikely friendships created among people who have long been divided by bitter resentments, deep suspicions, and violent sorrows. The book shows how the careful examination of their inner spiritual lives has enabled Jewish and Arab individuals to form peace partnerships, and that these partnerships may someday lead to peaceful coexistence. The peacemakers in this book have no for…
Identity and Religion in Peace Processes
Scholar and Peace Practitioner
This article reflects on the author’s life’s journey as a peace practitioner and scholar. Gopin recounts his lifelong quest to understand and mitigate violence in the world through peacebuilding, influenced by personal tragedies and extensive study in religious and philosophical ethics. His peacebuilding interventions in war zones have shaped his interdisciplinary approach to conflict resolution, integrating philosophical ethics, neuroscience, an…
Compassion, Science, and the Search for Meaning
The Role of Identity and Religion in Peace Processes
Political science (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Peacemaking (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works)