Tag: dialogue

• July 14, 2014

  Event with New Story Leadership Participants

  Last weekend, Marc appeared on the event of New Story Leadership for the Middle East as a panelist to discuss with Israeli and Palestinian youths, at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

  During the 7-week youth leadership program in Washington, a young delegation with 5 Israelis and 5 Palestinians watched the recent news of increasing tension between two countries, which made the program challenging and notable.

  You can read the report of this event at Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, or watch the video.

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• December 19, 2009

  Dialogue Sparked by To Make the Earth Whole

  Some good questions from my student Agatha Glowacki on To Make the Earth Whole. Her questions are bolded; my answers are italicized.

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  Dear Prof. Gopin,

  I am reading your newest book and am very energized by the insights and vision you offer. As I read, I have so many thoughts and have been jotting them down, and decided to email you to start a conversation.

  Here are some of my thoughts:

  1. You mention the possibility of hope resident in the idea of a global social contract based on democracy and freedom. What about those elements, especially the radical Muslim fringe but even the more mainstream Political Islamists, who don’t accept or want democracy or human rights because they see them as illegitimate products of the West?

  Actually, I think this Western approach is overemphasized. Indicators are that support for non-democratic forms of political Islam, and especially violent …