About the Author

Rev. Dr. Mark Lee Robinson, author of Just Conflict: Transformation Through Resolution, is committed to social change through the creative resolution of conflict. 

An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, Dr. Robinson has worked with the Masters and Johnson Institute in their Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program, and was Clinical Director of RAVEN, a St. Louis program that does intervention with men who batter and who commit sexual assault. Through over thirty years of work with this difficult population, Dr. Robinson formulated his principles of Creative Conflict Resolution, successfully helping many men to transform their lives. 

Just Conflict is an outgrowth of this work and his realization that, if these simple principles work for individuals often considered irredeemable, they can work for anyone. 

Dr. Robinson has since become Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution, a church-related agency which does research and education about conflict sources, styles, and resolution, offers training to pastors and other interveners, and gives individual and family counseling sessions. 

A practicing psychotherapist, Dr. Robinson holds a Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School, and a Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Counseling from Eden Theological Seminary in conjunction with Care and Counseling in St. Louis. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. A longtime resident of St. Louis, Dr. Robinson is married and has three children. 

[from the press release by Cait Johnson]