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| Tom Matyok, PhD, Faculty member, Conflict Resolution Department, UNCG Tel: 336.217.5100 Email: tgmatyok@uncg.edu |
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Tom Matyók is an Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Tom has extensive experience in the field of conflict analysis and resolution as a practitioner and academic. Before moving to UNCG, he spent several years researching and documenting the impact and working conditions of international merchant seafarers. He served as the director of the International Seafarers’ Center, an international non-governmental organization. A major role of the Center was identifying and archiving the slave-like conditions found on many international merchant ships.Tom has presented and testified to industry and government officials regarding cross-cultural conflict and slavery in the transnational merchant marine.Tom has a variety of teaching and research interests including: culture and conflict, inter-group relations and reconciliation programs, conflict resolution and public policy, globalization, peace studies, modern-day slavery, human trafficking, violence prevention and intervention, community outreach and practice, refugee and immigrant conflict resolution, and interdisciplinary models and theories.
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