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Frank Zerunyan in front of Rolling Hills Estates, California Genocide Memorial Monument that says “America, Thank you”
Moral and legal authority in preventing human suffering and genocide continues to erode in the 21st Century
The promise of “never again” has echoed through modern history as a moral and even legal commitment under international law to prevent the atrocities of genocide, armed conflicts, and mass suffering. Yet time and again, the global community has failed to uphold this pledge or obligation. While powerful nations and international institutions often claim the…
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Two wrongs don’t make a right! Circumventing California’s Constitution for political convenience is a dangerous precedent.
California Governor Gavin Newsom promoted and signed Assembly Bill 604 for a mid-decade redistricting plan to “fight fire with fire,” he claims, pointing to the redistricting efforts of Texas. I am not a Texan, so I cannot speak for Texas. I am a proud Californian elected to a nonpartisan local public office. I believe in…
August 23, 20250CommentsShare Post
Advancing and negotiating book
Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Practical Toolkit
With great joy, I present my most recent book, Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This book presents a negotiation framework based on network/collaborative governance principles in implementing the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Trialed in the classroom and workplace, the practical toolkit we developed gives the reader the tools necessary for facilitating future…
June 27, 20240CommentsShare Post
Isn’t Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) entitled to the same right to self-determination as America, France, Kosovo, and others?
If self-determination denotes the legal right of people to decide their own destiny in the international order. And, if Self-determination is a core principle of international law and good for the United States, France, and Kosovo, then why are all these political gymnastics jeopardizing the lives of ethnic Armenians of Artsakh? 
July 10, 20230CommentsShare Post
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A Monumental Task
How Frank V. Zerunyan brought awareness of the Armenian genocide to Rolling Hills Estates by Bondo Wyszpolski Last year, a bronze memorial plaque and relief sculpture was placed on the grounds of Rolling Hills Estates City Hall. It commemorates the Armenian genocide of 1915. Does the city, or the Peninsula for that matter, have any…
January 25, 20230CommentsShare Post
The human tragedy in Ukraine is sadly not unique.
One must be only human to feel the pain and the misery of 1.5 million Ukrainians displaced from their homeland. Coincidentally that number represents the number of my displaced ancestors, marched into the desert, and slaughtered in the first major genocide of the 20th Century. As I see the images on my television screen of…
March 8, 20220CommentsShare Post
City of Rolling Hills Estates
The Value of Local Public Service
As I begin my 14th year of academic service at one of the best research universities and highly ranked public affairs schools in the nation, I want to reflect on the value of local public service as the antidote to many wicked challenges facing us today.  Democracy's Hope is in Cities Several years ago, I shared the podium…
January 3, 20220CommentsShare Post