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MARC GOPIN, Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). Pp. 269. $29.95 cloth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2004

SOHAIL H. HASHMI
Affiliation:
International Relations Program, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.

Extract

Many explanations have been proffered for why the Oslo peace process has unraveled into the latest violent phase of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In this book, Marc Gopin suggests an explanation not often found in standard political analyses: the failure to cultivate peace among the Israeli and Palestinian masses. Gopin himself has long been involved in such grass-roots efforts, and accordingly Holy War, Holy Peace is part personal reflections of a peace activist and part manual on conflict resolution. Both parts illuminate and inform each other, making this work a more readable and more poignant study than most books on this subject.

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Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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