Frank V. Zerunyan

This article was originally posted on April 29, 2026 on the League of California Cities here. I have always reflected on and described my 27 years of service to my community and state — 23 in elected office — as the greatest joy and honor of my life. Over the last 17 years, I…

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…

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? 

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…

[A]uthoritarians are violating international law because they can. As for the rest of us, we learned nothing from history. 

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…

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…

This Blog article is dedicated to Colonel Sean McBride (US Marines ret.) and Commander Robert Hill (US Navy ret.) for their service and dedication. As a lawyer, I am trained to disagree but defend what I hate.  As an American by choice, I always hated those who desecrated the symbol of my freedom,…