In the race to discover real solutions for the conflicts that plague contemporary society, it is essential that we look to precedent. Many of today's conflicts involve ethno-religious tensions that modern wisdom alone is ill-equipped to resolve. In Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism, Rabbi Dr. Daniel Roth asks us to consider ancient religious and traditional cultural solutions to such present-day issues. Roth presents thirty-six case studies featuring third-party peacemakers drawn from Jewish classical, medieval, and early-modern rabbinic literature. Each case is explored through three layers of analysis - text, theory, and practice. The first layer offers historical and literary analysis of textual case studies, many of which are critically analyzed here for the first time. The second layer examines the theoretical model of third-party peacemaking imbedded within the selected cases and comparing them to other cultural and religious models of third-party peacemaking and conflict resolution. The final layer of analysis, based upon the author's personal experience of religious conflict resolution and peacemaking, looks at the practical implications of these case studies as models for modern peacemaking. Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism serves as an inspiration for fostering indigenous practices of third-party peacemaking and mediation in the modern era.

About the Author
Rabbi Dr. Daniel Roth is the Director of Mosaica -The Religious Peace Initiative, which engages religious leaders in mediation, conflict resolution, and religious peacebuilding and is a lecturer of religion and conflict resolution at Bar-Ilan University's Conflict Resolution, Management and Negotiation Graduate Program in Israel. Roth was the founder and director of the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution and the Mahloket Matters Project.

Reviews
the terrain covered and the perspectives presented on a subject of importance beyond a circumscribed scholarly community may well be of interest to a larger audience * Mindy C. Reiser, Association of Jewish Libraries *
Roth's book is an extraordinary piece of work. It contains a myriad of insights about conflict resolution in Judaism drawn from a wealth of Jewish sources, many previously unexplored, as well as the wealth of personal experience that Roth has accumulated as a seasoned teacher and practitioner of peacemaking. This is a unique and pioneering study. * Robert Eisen, Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies, George Washington University *
Only Rabbi Dr. Daniel Roth could manage a page in which the reader is taken from legends of Rabbi Meir, second-century Palestinian rabbi and master peacemaker, to the contemporary great thinker Bill Ury, and then onto the legendary Iraquois peacemaker Deganawida, all demonstrating the power of humble, gentle presence for third-party peacebuilding. Dr. Roth has delivered a masterpiece inquiry into third-party peacebuilding with a study spanning thousands of years of wisdom, and a supreme analysis of Judaism's potential contribution to peacebuilding. * Marc Gopin, Director of The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Carter School, George Mason University *
Roth leads us on a journey through the rich landscape of Jewish tradition and history, mining lessons for how best to respond to conflict in a world replete with it. We would do well to learn from the hard-earned wisdom of this religious tradition, and Roth shows us precisely how to do so as he relates ancient wisdom to his modern work of peacemaking in the Holy Land. The result is a remarkable book offering both theoretical insight and practical utility. * Rev. Susan Hayward, Senior Advisor of Religion and Inclusive Societies, the United States Institute of Peace *



Book Information
ISBN 9780197566770
Author Daniel Roth
Format Hardback
Page Count 376
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 654g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 169mm * 29mm