Selected Publications by Leadership Group Members

Madeleine Albright

• "Bridges, Bombs, or Bluster?" Foreign Affairs 82, no. 5 (2003)
• "How To Change Iraq," Washington Post, September 6, 2007
• The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs, HarperCollins 2006; Council on Foreign Relations book presentation, May 1, 2006
• "A Realistic Idealism," Washington Post, May 8, 2006
• and Vin Weber, "The Right Path to Arab Democracy," Washington Post, June 8, 2005

Ziad Asali

• "The Annapolis Summit," Washington Times, November 6, 2007
• "The 'change'," Washington Times, November 28, 2008
  
• "Mideast - the definite conflict," Middle East Times, November 7, 2007
• "On Solid Ground," Washington Times, March 15, 2007
• "The Palestinian Plight," Washington Times, June 18, 2007
• "Towards Israeli-Palestinian Peace," Washington Times, February 5, 2007

Marc Gopin

• Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking, Oxford University Press, 2000
• "Between Sharm El Sheikh and Damascus: Lessons and Journeys 2006"
• "Counter religious extremism with religious compassion," Christian Science Monitor, September 7, 2006
• Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East, Oxford University Press, 2005
• "How to challenge Iran's militancy without using arms," Christian Science Monitor, August 23, 2007
• Israelis are talking to Hamas:Religion at the cutting edge, Common Ground News, May 15, 2008.

Shamil Idriss

• "A public peace process," Common Ground News, November 19, 2004

Daisy Khan

• "The Five Pillars of Islam," Faces, February 2008
• "Harnessing the Future of Islam," 2006 interview with Daisy Khan by Dilshad D. Ali
• "On Faith: A Conversation on Religion with Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn," washingtonpost.com blog

Richard Land

• "A Christian Defense of the War in Iraq," beliefnet.com op-ed, 2006
• The Divided States of America? What Liberals AND Conservatives are missing in the God-and-country shouting match!, Thomas Nelson, 2007
• Imagine! A God-Blessed America: How It Could Happen and What It Would Look Like, B&H Publishing Group, 2005
• "On Faith: A Conversation on Religion with Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn," washingtonpost.com blog
• "Separation of Mosque and State?" beliefnet.com op-ed, 2002

Robert Lifton

• "Conditions of Atrocity," The Nation, May 2004
• Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World, Nation Books, 2003

John Marks

• and Susan Collin Marks, “Common Ground is Possible,” Christian Science Monitor, February 9, 1999
• and Susan Collin Marks, “Keeping Hope Alive,” European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation, Conflict Prevention Newsletter 6, no. 1 (May 2003)
• and Susan Collin Marks, "Let's Legislate Consensus-Building," Christian Science Monitor, February 10, 2005

Susan Collin Marks

• "Coexistence in the 21st Century," The Coexistence Initiative Chronicle 1, no. 1 (2001)
• “Nonviolent Direct Action in South Africa,” CGNews, January 2002
• “Preventing the Recurrence of Violent Conflict,” in Evolving Concepts of Peacebuilding: Natural Resource Management and Conflict Prevention, Foundation for Advanced Studies of International Development, Tokyo, 2001
• Watching the Wind: Conflict Resolution during South Africa's Transition to Democracy, USIP Press Books, 2000
• and John Marks, “What do they want me to do?” in Into the Eye of the Storm: A Handbook of International Peacebuilding, eds. John Paul Lederach and Janice Moomaw, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2002

Dalia Mogahed

• "America Not Only Nation ‘Under God'," washingtonpost.com blog, June 19, 2007
• "Framing the War on Terror," Gallup News, September 11, 2007
• and Geneive Abdo, "What Muslim Women Want," Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2006
• and John L. Esposito,  "Battle for Muslims' Hearts and Minds: The Road Not (Yet) Taken," March 12, 2007
• and John L. Esposito, Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think, Gallup Press, 2008
• and Zsolt Nyiri, "Reinventing Integration: Muslims in the West," Harvard International Review 29, no. 2 (2007)

Vali Nasr

• "Behind the Rise of the Shi'ites," Time, December 19, 2006
• "How to squeeze jihadi culture out of Pakistan," Christian Science Monitor, July 20, 2007
• "Musharraf fears democracy, not extremism," Christian Science Monitor, November 6, 2007
• "The Problem is Still the Insurgency," Washington Post, November 21, 2006
• The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future, W.W. Norton, 2006
• and Ray Takeyh, "The Costs of Containing Iran: Washington's Misguided New Middle East Policy," Foreign Affairs 87, no. 1 (2008)
• and Ray Takeyh, "The Iran Option That Isn't on the Table," Washington Post, February 8, 2007
• and Ray Takeyh, "Get Tehran inside the tent," International Herald Tribune, December 6, 2007

Feisal Abdul Rauf

• What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West, HarperCollins, 2004
• and Daisy Khan, "The Ideals We Share: America was built on diversity. The same is true of Islam," Newsweek, July 30, 2007

Dennis Ross

• "A plan for calm, hope and reform in the Middle East," Financial Times, March 27, 2007
• "How to Boost Middle East Democracy," Miami Herald, June 4, 2006
• "Picking Battles," New Republic Online, August 13, 2007
• Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
• "What Rice must do to pave way for Mideast peace deal," USA Today, October 17, 2007
• "What Went Wrong," Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2007

S. Abdallah Schleifer

• "The Impact of Arab Satellite Television on the Prospects of Democracy in the Arab World," May 12, 2005
• "Media and Religion in the Arab/Islamic World," FPRI Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs, October 11, 2006

Jessica Stern

• "Al Qaeda, American Style," New York Times, July 15, 2006
• "Al Qaeda changes its pitch: Marketing jihad," International Herald Tribune, July 17, 2006
• "Flights of fancy: Many Muslim youth espouse jihad as a fad," The Globe and Mail, June 12, 2006
• "Jihad - A Global Fad," Boston Globe, August 1, 2006
• "Keep American Muslims on Our Side," New York Times, September 10, 2006
• Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, HarperCollins, 2004

Mustapha Tlili

• "Arab Democracy: A Possible Dream?" World Policy Journal 18, no. 3 (2001)

William Ury

• Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations, Bantam, 1993
• The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes, Bantam, 2007
• "A Third Alternative in Iraq," United Press International Outside View, June 22, 2007
• The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stop, Penguin 2000
• and Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, 2nd ed., Penguin, 1991

Daniel Yankelovich

• "Across the red-blue divide: How to start a conversation," Christian Science Monitor, October 15, 2004
• Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World, Syracuse University Press, 1991
• The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict into Cooperation, Touchstone, 2001
• "Poll Positions: What Americans Really Think About U.S. Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs 84, no. 5 (2005)
• "The Tipping Points," Foreign Affairs 85, no. 3 (2006)
• "To defeat Al Qaeda, U.S. must build trust of moderate muslims," Christian Science Monitor, September 20, 2004

Ahmed Younis

• American Muslims: Voir Dire (Speak the Truth), Dawn Books, 2002
• "FreeSpeech: Ahmed Younis," CBI Evening News, September 12, 2006

Dov Zakheim

• "Blending Democracy," National Interest online, September 1, 2005
• "Focus on the Integrity of Borders," National Interest online, November 10, 2006
• "Kipling Redux," National Interest online, September 13, 2007
• "What's in a Name? Ending the ‘War' on Terror," The American Interest, May/June 2008
• and Robert D. Blackwill and Rich Lowry,  "Symposium: The Bush Foreign Policy Strategy, Take Two," National Interest online, June 1, 2006