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About the Speakers
Moderator: Roger Petersen
Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT
Roger Petersen is associate professor of political science at MIT. He has traveled and lived throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He is the author of Rebellion and Resistance: Lessons from Eastern Europe; and Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe. He is currently working on a manuscript dealing with the interaction between strategic action and emotion in context of Kosovo.
Mark Gobin
Associate Professor of International Diplomacy and Senior Research Associate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Marc Gopin is visiting Associate Professor of International Diplomacy and Senior Research Associate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Recent Publications include Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking; Holy War, Holy Peace: Religion's Role in Solving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; "World Religions, Violence, and Myths of Peace in International Relations," in Religion, Violence and Visions for Peace, and "What Do I Need to Know About Religion and Conflict," in Handbook of Conflict Resolution. He is a visiting scholar at Harvard University; and a Senior Associate in the Preventive Diplomacy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Heather S. Gregg PhD '04
PhD candidate at MIT in the Political Science Department
Heather S. Gregg is a PhD candidate at MIT in the Political Science Department where she is concentrating on International Relations and Security Studies. She holds a Master's degree in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School where she focused on Islam and Christian ethics. She has lived in several regions of conflict including Jerusalem and Bethlehem, working with Palestinian Christians on issues surrounding Israeli occupation, and Croatia and Bosnia from 1994 to 1996. She is currently writing her PhD dissertation on The Causes of Religious War, considering both historic and contemporary cases of religious violence, terrorism and war.
David Little
T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School Director of Initiatives in Religion and Public Life, and Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
David Little is the T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School; Director of Initiatives in Religion and Public Life, and Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. He has served as the senior scholar in religion, ethics, and human rights at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1996 to 1998, he was a member of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. He is author with Scott W. Hibbard of Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy and author of two of the volumes in the USIP series on Religion, Nationalism, and Intolerance, and Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity.
Louise Richardson
Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Louise Richardson is Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. From 1989 to 2001 she was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Government at Harvard. She has taught courses on international relations, terrorist movements, foreign policy, international security and U.S.-European Relations. She is the author of When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations during the Suez and Falklands Crises (1996). She has also published articles on prospect theory in international relations, on British foreign and defense policy, on security institutions, and on international terrorism. Richardson's current research projects involve a study of decision-making inside terrorist movements and a comparative study of state responses to changes in the structural distribution of power in Europe.
Roger Petersen
Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT
Roger Petersen is associate professor of political science at MIT. He has traveled and lived throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He is the author of Rebellion and Resistance: Lessons from Eastern Europe; and Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe. He is currently working on a manuscript dealing with the interaction between strategic action and emotion in context of Kosovo.
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About the Host
Center for International Studies
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Religion and Political Violence
- Moderator: Roger Petersen
- Mark Gobin
Heather S. Gregg PhD '04
David Little
Louise Richardson
Roger Petersen - January 28, 2002
- Running Time: 01:30:19
