Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East

by Marc Gopin

Book Overview

The Intifada of 2000-2001 has demonstrated the end of an era of diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The style of peacemaking of the Olso Accords has been called into question by the facts on the ground. Elite forms of peacemaking that do not embrace the basic needs of average people on all sides are bound to fail.
The complete neglect of deeper cultural and religious systems in the peace process is now apparent, as is the role that this neglect...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195146506
• ISBN13: 9780195146509
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"