Our Team

Jonathan D. Greenberg

Director

Jonathan D. Greenberg co-founded the USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice with Dr. Clarence B. Jones, with whom he worked very closely since 2014, and he served as the institute’s Senior Associate Director and Scholar in Residence until Dr. Jones retired as director at the end of 2020.

Prior to his joining USF, Jonathan taught negotiation, conflict resolution, diplomacy and international law at Stanford Law School for thirty years as Lecturer in Law, Teaching Fellow and Director of International Graduate Studies; he concurrently served on the faculty of the Stanford University Program in Public Policy and participated as affiliated faculty with the Stanford Center for African Studies, the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies, and the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation. From 2014-2019, Jonathan served as Scholar in Residence at the law school’s Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution, where he directed the center’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Project.

As a scholar in the conflict resolution field, Jonathan has published widely on Kingian nonviolence, restorative justice, international law, human rights and environmental history, including articles in Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Duke), The Journal of International Affairs (Columbia), Harvard International Review, Stanford Law Review, Stanford Journal of International Law, and the Vanderbilt Journal of International Law. In the U.S. he has lectured and presented at conferences in universities throughout the United States and internationally, including at Escuela Superior de Administracion de Negocios (Universidad ESAN), Lima, Peru; Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City; the Mongolia Economic Forum, Ulaanbaator; Sophia University, Tokyo; and the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva.

In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Jonathan served as associate counsel to the Canadian law firm Heenan Blaikie LLP (2005-2013), where he directed the firm’s International Dispute Resolution practice, and as Senior Advisor to the President of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands (2012-14). Jonathan served on the Board of Directors of Step Up on Second (Santa Monica, 2009-2020) a community-based organization providing permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless adults with mental illness in California and throughout the United States, and on the Board of Directors of Traveling Jewish Theatre (San Francisco, 1991-2000).