Dr. Daniel Roth

Administrative Work Experience:

• Director/founder, Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution, 2012 to present.
• Coordinator, Pardes Peace and Conflict Track, 2010-2012.
• Director, Pardes Advanced Scholars Program, 2008-2010.

Teaching Experience:

• Bar Ilan University, Program for Conflict Resolution, Management and Negotiation:
  • Jewish Models of Conflict Resolution, 2013.
  • Models of Conflict Resolution in Judaism and Other Religions, 2014-5.
• Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1999-present

Sample Courses:

• Intro to Judaism and Conflict Resolution
• Advanced Course: Mediating Conflicting Interpretations in the Talmud.
• Advanced Course: Mediating Conflicting Interpretations in the Bible.

• Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Philadelphia, 2015.
  • The Rabbi as a Pursuer of Peace.
• National Geographic and MEJDI Duel Narrative Tours, 2011 -present:

Sample Lecture Topics:

• Religion and Peacebuilding in the Holy Land
• Reconciliation in the context of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict.

Education/Fellowships:

• Senior Research Fellow at Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, 2011-.
• PhD., Bar-Ilan University, Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation, 2013. Dissertation: "Aaron, Pursuer of Peace between People as a Rabbinic Model of Reconciliation." (Advisor: Prof. Moshe Rosman).
• MA, Talmud, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007.
• B.Ed., Jewish Philosophy, Talmud and Education, Herzog College, 2001.

Other Training and Education:

• Court Certified Mediator, Gevim Group, 2009.
• Rabbinic Ordination Certificate, Yeshivat Har-Etzion, 1993-2001.
• Teaching Certificate, Herzog College, 2001.

Academic Conferences and Lectures:

• Steering committee and co-organizer of “Religion and Conflict Resolution Track”, in International Conference on “Bridging Theory and Practice in Conflict Engagement”, Bar-Ilan University, 2015.
• International Conference on Conflict and Disputes in Jewish Communities throughout the Generations, Bar Ilan University, "The Identity and Methods of Pursuers of Peace in Jewish Communities", Ramat Gan, June 2012.
• Session Organizer, Association for Jewish Studies 43^rd Annual Conference, "Jewish Models of Conflict Resolution", Washington DC, Dec. 2011.
• Summit on Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Emory University, "Jewish Peacebuilding Models: From Text to Training", Atlanta, June 2011.
• Bar-Ilan University, Graduate Seminar in International Relations, 2010. "Reconciliation: Western and non-Western Models."  (Hebrew).
• Steering committee member for Bar Ilan University, Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation, Conference on Conflict Resolution in the Jewish Tradition, 2009.
• Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles Graduate Seminar, 2009. "How good is the Rabbi at Saying Sorry?"