Religion, Conflict and Violence in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
Professor Kevin Avruch
On Monday 16th May, 2011, the Institute for Research on the Signs of the Times (DISCERN) is organizing a Public Lecture on ‘Religion, Conflict and Violence in Contemporary and Historical Perspective’. The guest speaker will be Professor Kevin Avruch, The Henry Hart Rice Conflict Resolution Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution George Mason University. Virginia. This event will be held at the Palazzo De Piro, Mdina at 7.00pm.
KEVIN AVRUCH is the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution and Professor of Anthropology in the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and faculty and senior fellow in the Peace Operations Policy Program (School of Public Policy), at George Mason University. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. He has taught at UCSD, the University of Illinois at Chicago and, since 1980, at GMU, where he served as Coordinator of the Anthropology Program in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 1990-1996. From 2005-2008 he served as Associate Director of ICAR.
Professor Avruch has published more than sixty articles and essays and is author or editor of six books, including Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government (1997), Culture and Conflict Resolution (1998) Information Campaigns for Peace Operations (2000), and Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution: Essays on Culture, Identity, Power and Practice (2011). His other writings include articles and essays on culture theory and conflict analysis and resolution, third party processes, cross-cultural negotiation, nationalist and ethnoreligious social movements, human rights, and politics and society in contemporary Israel. Professor Avruch has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, and his work has been recognized by the International Association of Conflict Management and the United States Institute of Peace, where he spent the 1996-1997 academic year as senior fellow in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace. He was the Joan B. Kroc Peace Scholar at the Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego in Spring, 2009.