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Richard Rubenstein
Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs, George Mason University
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J.D., 1963, Harvard Law School
M.A., 1961, Oxford University
Honours School of Jurisprudence (Rhodes Scholar)
B.A., 1959, Harvard College
Magna Cum Laude in History and Literature

Biography

Richard E. Rubenstein is University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University, holding degrees from Harvard College, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard Law School. A former lawyer, political scientist, and director of S-CAR, he is the author of eight books about various types of violent social conflict and the possibilities of resolving them nonviolently. Rubenstein teaches grad and undergrad courses on conflict theory and speaks publicly on issues of peace and social justice.   

 



Awards and Honors
Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy
Richard Rubenstein was awarded a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy, for four weeks in March and April 2009. Rubenstein will use the residency to work on his...
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Richard Rubenstein: Published
Toward Popular Discourses of Peace
Richard Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make that sales pitch so effective. Through analysis of discourses that...

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Richard Rubenstein: Published
The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology
In Chapter 2 “The role of civilians in American war ideology,” Richard Rubenstein examines the reasons why Americans go to war in the past two centuries. He shows how past American...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War
What makes Americans fight? Why do the professed first citizen of the free world so often accept armed conflict as a political measure, and how do we justify those choices to ourselves? When is...

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Richard Rubenstein: Published
Richard Rubenstein: Published
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Richard Rubenstein: Published
Toward Popular Discourses of Peace
Richard Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make that sales pitch so effective. Through analysis of discourses that...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology
In Chapter 2 “The role of civilians in American war ideology,” Richard Rubenstein examines the reasons why Americans go to war in the past two centuries. He shows how past American...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War
What makes Americans fight? Why do the professed first citizen of the free world so often accept armed conflict as a political measure, and how do we justify those choices to ourselves? When is...

Category: Book
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Richard Rubenstein: Published
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May 08, 2012
Richard Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make that sales pitch so effective. Through analysis of discourses that have led to wars, the author offers a new way to think about the...
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March 26, 2012
In Chapter 2 “The role of civilians in American war ideology,” Richard Rubenstein examines the reasons why Americans go to war in the past two centuries. He shows how past American military campaigns have been shaped by normative beliefs regarding why...
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September 28, 2010
What makes Americans fight? Why do the professed first citizen of the free world so often accept armed conflict as a political measure, and how do we justify those choices to ourselves? When is war the right decision?From the American Revolution to the end of...
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September 09, 2008
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September 01, 2008
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September 01, 2008
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November 13, 2006
In ancient Judea, Jeremiah and Isaiah advised kings and priests and watched the great armies of the ancient Near East sweep across the desert, threatening and overtaking their tiny country with its burgeoning faith. Across centuries a new view emerged based on...
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September 20, 2004
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across...
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August 13, 2003
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August 01, 2003
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July 10, 2000
The story of Jesus is well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire. The history of fervent debate, civil strife, and bloody riots within the Christian community as it was coming into being, however, is a side of ancient history...
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January 01, 1996
The two public lectures contained in this working paper were presented by Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution faculty member Richard E. Rubenstein at the University of Malta. "Conflict Resolution and Political Power" was presented in Valletta...
Category: Papers & Reports
September 22, 1994
Samuel Huntington's theory on how to craft a new paradigm capable of revealing the principal sources of conflict and collaboration in a rapidly changing international system is criticized. It is argued that destructive conflict between identity groups can be...
Category: Journal Article
June 01, 1994
Readers opening the New York Times on the morning of February 7, 1909, saw the headline: Police and Reds Both Hunt Azeff. "Where is Azeff?" the report began. "Who will get to him first? Who will be his executioner, the Russian police or the...
Category: Book
January 01, 1994
What is "the news" about? International conflicts and communal wars. Religious upheavals and racial disorders. Political debates and family disputes. Arrests, shootouts, strikes, layoffs, feuds, fistfights...and lawsuits (always lawsuits). From page one...
Category: Papers & Reports
April 01, 1993
Immediately following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops in August 1990, many scholars and practitioners in the field of conflict resolution went on record opposing military action by United States or United Nations forces to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi...
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September 01, 1989
"Group Violence in America: The Fire Next Time?" is the second working paper of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.Both writings will come as a surprise to those who think of conflict resolution as being...
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September 01, 1988
In a calm, level-headed analysis, Rubenstein offers a powerful rebuttal to many assumptions about terrorism. He maintains that terrorist acts are often the responses of frustrated people to American-sponsored oppression that is intended to protect U.S. imperial...
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February 01, 1973
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Richard Rubenstein: Published
Toward Popular Discourses of Peace
Richard Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make that sales pitch so effective. Through analysis of discourses that...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology
In Chapter 2 “The role of civilians in American war ideology,” Richard Rubenstein examines the reasons why Americans go to war in the past two centuries. He shows how past American...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War
What makes Americans fight? Why do the professed first citizen of the free world so often accept armed conflict as a political measure, and how do we justify those choices to ourselves? When is...

Category: Book
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Richard Rubenstein: Published
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Category: Book Chapter
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February 2012
The advent of unexpected forms ofsocial conflict challenges conflict analysts to answer two hard questions. The first
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December 06, 2011
Richard E. Rubenstein is University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University,
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October 21, 2011
Sir, Your editorial “America wakes to the din of inequity” (October 17) we believe is essentially correct.
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July 1, 2011
  By Richard E. Rubenstein
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March 18, 2011
REASONS TO KILL: REVIEWInnocents abroad – or natural born killers in pursuit of an empire? Reasons to Kill: Why
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Richard Rubenstein: Published
Toward Popular Discourses of Peace
Richard Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make that sales pitch so effective. Through analysis of discourses that...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology
In Chapter 2 “The role of civilians in American war ideology,” Richard Rubenstein examines the reasons why Americans go to war in the past two centuries. He shows how past American...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War
What makes Americans fight? Why do the professed first citizen of the free world so often accept armed conflict as a political measure, and how do we justify those choices to ourselves? When is...

Category: Book
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Richard Rubenstein: Published
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Category: Book Chapter
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Little is known about the dynamics of environmental stress as it moves through social-ecological systems. What causes it to accelerate or diminish as it travels through space and time, or across hierarchical levels of the systems it disrupts? Do structural properties in these systems play a role?
April 26, 2012
This research focuses on how we should define the energy that empowers rebellion and generates appealing frames and imposes change, and whether one can claim some correlation between this bottom-up shift and weak leadership, institutional fatigue, public discontent, or social malaise. As seen now
April 26, 2012
This dissertation is a contextual and discourse analysis of the processes that occur within interfaith dialogue, using a historical case study, with the goal of yielding insight into the dynamics of religious discourse in conflict settings and the processes of change within religious organizations
April 02, 2012
Join Unrest Magazine (www.unrestmag.com) and The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution for a spirited debate on the future of the Occupy Movement and the American Left. Occupy Wall Street and the growth of the Occupy Movement have launched the issue inequality back into the political
December 06, 2011
George Mason University’s region-wide celebration of books, Fall for the Book, will feature a discussion of Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War at the Shirlington Public Library in Arlington, Virginia on Wednesday evening, September 21, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Rich will present the book
September 21, 2011
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Richard Rubenstein: Published
Toward Popular Discourses of Peace
Richard Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make that sales pitch so effective. Through analysis of discourses that...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology
In Chapter 2 “The role of civilians in American war ideology,” Richard Rubenstein examines the reasons why Americans go to war in the past two centuries. He shows how past American...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War
What makes Americans fight? Why do the professed first citizen of the free world so often accept armed conflict as a political measure, and how do we justify those choices to ourselves? When is...

Category: Book
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Sources

Category: Book Chapter
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Richard Rubenstein: Published
Toward Popular Discourses of Peace
Richard Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make that sales pitch so effective. Through analysis of discourses that...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology
In Chapter 2 “The role of civilians in American war ideology,” Richard Rubenstein examines the reasons why Americans go to war in the past two centuries. He shows how past American...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War
What makes Americans fight? Why do the professed first citizen of the free world so often accept armed conflict as a political measure, and how do we justify those choices to ourselves? When is...

Category: Book
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Richard Rubenstein: Published
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Category: Book Chapter
Titlesort icon Semester
The purpose of the course is to develop our understanding of violent structural conflicts and the possible methods of...
Explores role of religious ideas, practices, and organizations in conflict, war, peace making, and conflict...
Topics vary; they are announced each academic year.
Taken in last semester of master’s student course work. Assists in developing students’ own theories of conflict and conflict...
Examines major theories of conflict causation and motivation. Emphasizes need for theories to inform processes of conflict resolution. Weaves...
Capstone course in which students reflect on what they have learned, integrating knowledge from course work and...
Examines causes, sources, and origins of  group violence with particular attention to group violence of...
Terrorism is a significant factor in conflict worldwide, yet the underlying causes and conditions that give rise to terrorist activity are often...
Covers deeply rooted, intractable, or protracted social conflicts around core issues of identity, including race,...
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Richard Rubenstein: Published
Toward Popular Discourses of Peace
Richard Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make that sales pitch so effective. Through analysis of discourses that...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
The Role of Civilians in American War Ideology
In Chapter 2 “The role of civilians in American war ideology,” Richard Rubenstein examines the reasons why Americans go to war in the past two centuries. He shows how past American...

Category: Book Chapter
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War
What makes Americans fight? Why do the professed first citizen of the free world so often accept armed conflict as a political measure, and how do we justify those choices to ourselves? When is...

Category: Book
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Richard Rubenstein: Published
Sources

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