CONFLICT RESOLUTION FROM RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS - FACULTY

JANUARY, 2010 Program Faculty have not yet been finalized.  The  faculty will most likely include the following:

 Program Director David M. Cobin has been a Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law since 1977. He was membership secretary of the Jewish Law Association (1993-1998), and board member of the Jewish Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (1996-2001), (chair, 1999-2000). Professor Cobin was Director of the Hamline-Hebrew University Program on Law, Religion and Ethics (1994-2000), and has developed and directed the Hamline-Hebrew University Program on Conflict Resolution from Religious Traditions since 2005.

Other Faculty include:

 Marc Gopin is James H. Laue Professor and Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Human Security of the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy. Professor Gopin has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the Fletcher School and Visiting Scholar in the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University. Professor Gopin is author of Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking (2000) and Holy War, Holy Peace (2002) both Oxford University Press. Professor Gopin will teach approaches to conflict resolution between and among the three religious traditions.

 Qadi Ahmad Natour is President of the High Sharia’a Court of Appeal in Israel. Qadi Natour has taught in the Hamline-Hebrew University Program on Law, Religion and Ethics, and is currently on the faculties of Tel Aviv University and American University in Washington, D.C. Qadi Natour was the first Muslim to receive an Interfaith Gold Medallion Award from the International Council of Christians and Jews. He has used alternative dispute resolution techniques to resolve disputes when appropriate, even in the High Sharia’a Court of Appeal. Qadi Natour will teach the Islamic traditions for conflict resolution.

 Daniel Rossing is Director of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations. He formerly was Head of the Christian Communities Desk at the Jerusalem Foundation, Director of the Department for Christian Communities in the Israeli Ministry of Religion for thirteen years, and Director of the Melitz Center for Christian Encounter with Israel. Daniel Rossing taught in the Hamline-Hebrew University Program on Law, Religion and Ethics. He is author of Between Heaven and Earth: Testimonies to 2,000 years of Christianity in the Holy Land. Daniel Rossing will teach the Christian traditions for conflict resolution.

 Michael Tsur is Founder and Director of the Mediation and Conflict Resolution Institute, Jerusalem and an Adjunct Professor of Mediation at the College of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also practices law in Israel. Michael Tsur was a partner in the establishment of the National Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution in the Justice Ministry for Israel. He was a prominent negotiator in resolving the standoff between which arose in April and May, 2002 when approximately 250 armed Palestinians and ordinary citizens sought refuge in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. He is the author of “The Art of Writing a Mediation Agreement”, a widely read guide available on-line at http://www.mediate.com/. Michael Tsur will participate in drafting and supervising problem simulations for conflict resolution in all three religious traditions.

 Daniel Sinclair is the John and Nancy-Eppler Wolff Professor of Jewish Law at Fordham University Law School in New York City and also teaches Jewish law; Comparative Bio-Medical law, Jurisprudence and the History and Principles of the Common law at the College of Management Law School, Rishon Lezion, Israel. He has held academic appointments at Tel-Aviv University and the University of Edinburgh and at the Hebrew University,Jerusalem, where he is currently Visiting Professor in Jewish Law and Comparative Bio-Medical law. Professor Sinclair is an ordained Orthodox rabbi and has served as the rabbi of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation and as Dean of Jews' College,London.

Gabriel Lajeunesse currently is the commander of Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), Detachment 522, Ircirlik Air Base, Turkey.  As a career Special Agent for AFOSI, Major Lajeunesse has investigated domestic and transnational crimes affecting US national security interests, including international terrrorism and illegal technology transfer.  He has been a policy advisor on Middle East issues in the Joint Staff and in the Office of the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.  Major Lajeunesse has a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a BS from the University of Massachusetts.  In 2008, he participated as a student in the Hamline Hebrew University program.

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