A. Marco Turk, J.D.
Professor of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
LIB A501 | 310.243.3237 | amturk@csudh.edu
Office Hours: TTh 4 - 7pm

A. Marco Turk, J.D., is Director and Professor of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH).  He served as Chair of the CSUDH 23-program Graduate Council (2005-2007), member of the University Curriculum Committee, and member of its Program Review Panel.  He has been an innovative visionary in curriculum improvement and creation of new programs at CSUDH. In 2003, he became the first recipient of the “A. M. Turk Values” award created in his honor by the CSUDH Negotiation & Conflict Management Alumni Association (now Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Affinity Association).

Prior to his arrival at CSUDH in the fall of 2002, Professor Turk taught in the Global Peace and Conflict Studies Program and in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he began his full-time academic career in 1995.

Professor Turk is a certified community and trial court-qualified mediator, and serves on a panel of appellate mediators.  A member of the State Bar of California since 1961, he is a former Los Angeles Superior Court judge pro tem, arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, and adjunct law professor teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution.  He established new family law in California concerning date of separation in determining division of community property; see In re Marriage of von der Nuell [1994], 23 CA4th 730, 28 CR2d 447. 

In 2003, the State Bar Board of Governors appointed Professor Turk a member of its Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for a three-year term where he has been active in advancing ADR in California and serving as a ADR Committee panelist at both the 2005 and 2006 annual State Bar meetings.    During 2006, he has served as a consultant to the director of ADR services for the Los Angeles Superior Court.  Professor Turk is also a Practitioner/Educator/Researcher member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and a member of the editorial board for its peer-reviewed journal, Conflict Resolution Quarterly (formerly Mediation Quarterly).

Professor Turk is recognized internationally for his work as a peacebuilder, educator and trainer dealing with ethnic conflict.  He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Conflict Resolution on the Eastern Mediterranean Island of Cyprus (1997-1999), and has made funded return trips in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2005 to continue his peacebuilding work with both Greek and Turkish Cypriots.  [See: Turk, A.M. (2007) Rethinking the Cyprus problem:  Are frame-breaking changes still possible through application of intractable conflict intervention approaches to this "hurting stalemate”? Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, 29 (3), forthcoming; Turk, A.M. (2006).  Cyprus reunification is long overdue: The time is right for track III diplomacy as the best approach for successful negotiation of this ethnic conflict.  Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, 28 (2), 205-255.]  As part of his work in the area of negotiating ethnic conflict, Professor Turk created a course in International Conflict Resolution for Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), which he teaches as an adjunct professor of law in the Loyola Juris Doctor (JD) and International LLM programs.

Professor Turk was the featured graduation speaker at the 2005 Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Middle East Symposium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (Nicosia, Cyprus).  In addition, his peacebuilding efforts have extended to Norway, Israel, Turkey, England and Nigeria (where he was a featured presenter at the 1st African ADR Summit [Power of Change 2006]), as well as to both coasts of the United States.  In October 2003, Professor Turk participated as one of only two Americans invited to attend the Oxford University international workshop on "Getting to Yes" regarding efforts to reunify Cyprus.

As part of his continuing work with the Cyprus Fulbright Commission through the U.S. State Department, Professor Turk conducted a two-week education/training program for six Cypriot family court judges in the Los Angeles area in August 2004, dealing with family law in a federal system.  His two earlier Fulbright/State Department education/training programs in the USA for Cypriots (lawyers, judges, law professors, and police) have dealt with: (1) the administration of justice, and (2) community policing, in the United States.  During the summer of 2005, Professor Turk returned to Cyprus with Dr. John Winslade and Dr. Gerald Monk to conduct advanced narrative mediation training programs through the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace (San Diego State University).  In November 2006, he was invited to participate with Drs. Winslade and Monk in the Cyprus Forum that hosted six Cypriot academicians under the auspices of the Hansen Institute.
 
Professor Turk may be reached at California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria Street, LIB-A501, Carson, CA 90747 USA; tel. 310-243-2295; fax 310-516-4268; e-mail: amturk@csudh.edu.