On Monday 17th, May, 2010, at 7:00 p.m., the Institute for Research on the Signs of the Times (DISCERN) is organizing a public lecture on ‘Just Wars in Theory and Practice’. The guest speaker will be Professor Richard Rubenstein, from the Institute for Conflict Resolution and Analysis, George Mason University, Virginia. The public lecture will be held at Dar l-Ewropa, 254, St. Paul Street, Valletta.
Richard E. Rubenstein is a Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.
Professor Rubenstein regularly lectures at Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution amongst others his topics include Theories of Conflict and Conflict Resolution; Advanced Social Theory; Religion, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution; Conflict: Perspectives from Literature; and Theory-Building and Dissertation Preparation.
He is the author of several books, including When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity in the Last Days of Rome (2000) and Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages (2004), as well as numerous articles and reviews. His newest book is entitled Thus Saith the Lord: The Revolutionary Moral Vision of Isaiah and Jeremiah (2006).