Ethnic & Religious Conflict Policy Center

JSPAN's Policy Center for Ethnic and Religious Conflict is in the process of formulating its agenda for the forthcoming year. We are pleased to announce that two experts in this field will be contributing their skills as this Center moves forward in its role to build awareness of ethnic and religious injustices both locally, nationally and internationally as well as to provide direction for appropriate membership action where and when it is needed. Presently, two items are presented below that require your immediate attention.

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The Ethnic & Religious Conflict Policy Center is chaired by Susan Bolno.   The Ethnic & Religious Policy Center is advised by two accomplished experts in the field: Richard Cohen is the President of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has been involved in a wide variety of civil rights litigation ranging from traditional employment discrimination and voting rights cases to lawsuits against neo-Nazi organizations. He has appeared in numerous state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1997, he was named by American Lawyer magazine as one of 45 “young lawyers outside the private sector whose vision and commitment are changing lives.” In 1999, he was a finalist for the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. In addition to his legal work at the Center, Richard has been intimately involved in the Center’s work monitoring extremist activity and in its tolerance education initiatives. He serves as the executive producer for the Center’s award-winning documentary films. Two have won Oscars. A Virginia native, Richard received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1976 and his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1979. Prior to joining the staff of the Law Center as the Legal Director in 1986, he was a shareholder in a Washington, D.C., law firm.  

Dr. Ian S. Lustick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair. He is an expert on Middle East politics, ethnic conflict, and religious fundamentalism. Among his publications are For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: British Ireland, French Algeria, and Israel and the West Bank/Gaza, and Right-sizing the State: The Politics of Moving Borders. He is the co-editor of Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinian Arabs and Jews (2005). Recent publications include articles on Jerusalem, the peace process, non-Jewish immigration into Israel, secessionism, and US foreign policy in the Middle East. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation. He has worked on Arab-Israeli affairs in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, lectures widely, appears regularly in the national and international media, and has served as a consultant on Middle East affairs for each administration since the late 1970s.

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