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Ron Hassner is a Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Chancellor's Chair in Political Science and is the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at Berkeley. His research focuses on religion and conflict, especially conflicts over sacred places, , as well as on territorial disputes and interrogational torture. He is a faculty director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley. Hassner is a recipient of Berkeley's campus-wide “Distinguished Teaching Award”.