Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

"The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution offers a new approach to reducing global violence and terrorism by incorporating the best moral practices of religious communities into policy planning, diplomacy, civil society building and democratization. Providing policymakers and activists with strategies to elicit moderate moral religious expressions in conflict regions can strengthen civil society and democracy. The goal is to create political, religious and social openings that allow international political compromises and vital peace processes to flourish....

"In 2003, a major gift commitment from the Catalyst Fund endowed the The James H. Laue Chair in World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution, and created a center in the same field. The chair is named for James H. Laue, the inaugural Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution at George Mason from 1987 until his death in 1993." Based at George Mason University.


 * Director - Marc Gopin, Ph.D., James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution,

Board
Accessed April 2010:


 * Joseph Montville - Chair of the Board & Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
 * Zainab al-Suwaij - Executive Director, American Islamic Congress
 * Leo Kramer - President, KAI Corp, President, FAR, Chairman, Steering Committee on Health
 * R. Scott Appleby - John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
 * Patrice C. Brodeur - Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism and Globalization
 * Rachel Cowan - Director, Spirituality Institute
 * Robert Eisen - Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies
 * Amy Potter - Program Associate, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
 * Abdul Aziz Sachedina - Professor of Islamic and Shi'ite Studies;
 * Lisa Schirch - Associate Professor of Conflict Studies
 * Krister Stendahl - Mellon Professor of Divinity Emeritus
 * David Trickett - President, The Jefferson Circle
 * Marc Gopin, ex-officio - Director, CRDC
 * Sara Cobb, ex-officio - Director, ICAR

Contact
URL: http://www.gmu.edu/depts/crdc