Allison Frendak-Blume

Allison Frendak-Blume has been a program officer in the Institute’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding on an intermittent basis since 2004, supporting the “Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise" (SENSE) simulation program. She has conducted numerous trainings with domestic and international audiences and transferred the SENSE capability to partners in Iraq and Poland. Frendak-Blume previously worked at the Institute from 2000 to 2002 as a research assistant with the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program. She has also worked with the Institute for Defense Analyses and in Bosnia and Herzegovina with Save the Children/U.S., the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Conflict Resolution Catalysts/Danas za Bolja Sutra. Presently, she co-directs the Peace Operations Policy Program at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy.

Frendak-Blume holds a Ph.D. in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University, an M.A. in social science from Montclair State University and a B.A. in history (Russian Area Studies) from Seton Hall University.