Article May 6, 1996 Issue

Hope for the Middle East peace process

by Kim Shippey

Breakthroughs

The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last Novermber caused many people to think afresh about the key elements of conflict resolution, which include openness to the heart of another person and a willingness to change. It's a subject now offered as a course of study in many colleges and universities.

We spoke recently with Dr. Marc Gopin, a Jewish rabbi, who has a dual appointment at George Mason University, Virginia, in the Religion and Philosophy Department, and at the University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He has been engaged for many years in international conflict resolution and poverty relief.

He told us that the death of Prime Minister Rabin had shaken him more than he would have believed possible, yet the experience turned him more conscientiously than ever before to the challenge of integrating the deepest elements of Jewish religion with conflict resolution strategy.

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