Allison M. Frendak-Blume
Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vita
2004 – Present, Academic Director, Peace Operations Policy Program, School of Public Policy, George Mason University.

2001 – 2004, Research Associate and Adjunct Faculty, School of Public Policy, George Mason University.

2004 – Present, S.E.N.S.E Program Officer, United States Institute Of Peace, Washington, D.C.

February 2000- July 2002, Research Assistant, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.

May 1999 – September 2002, Coach/Consultant. Institute For Defense Analysis, Alexandria, Virginia.

September 1998 – February 2002, Research Analyst, MURPHY & MACONACHY, INC., Fairfax, Virginia.

February 1998 – August 1998, International Consultant DANAS za BOLjE SUTRA, Sarajevo-Ilidza, BiH.

Publications & Research
Frendak-Blume, Allison M. 2006. Conceptualizing the peace operations environment. Journal of International Peace Operations 1, no. 6 (January-March) : 1.

2006. US military chaplains’ contact with local communities in Bosnia (1995-2002). Kernvraag 2, no. 135 : 67-74.

Davis, Dave, Allison Frendak-Blume, Jennifer Wheeler, and A.E.R. Woodcock. 2005. A conceptual model of counterterrorist operations. Intelligence and Security Informatics: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, Proceedings 3495 : 305-317.

2004. Assessment of the effectiveness of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs in West Africa.  (Research report prepared for the National Defense University).

Frendak-Blume, Allison M. 2004. Assessment of the effectiveness of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs in West Africa (forthcoming).

Bailey, Robert, Dave Davis, Richard Cousens, and Allison Frendak-Blume. 2003. Development of force allocation rules for urban, rural, and border control in crisis response operations. Oxford-on-the-Henley, UK: Systems Consultants Services.

Frendak, Allison M., et al. (eds.) 2001. Conflict analysis and resolution: From marital discord to state transformation. Fairfax, Va.: Graduate Students in Conflict Studies.

Perry, Valery, Landon Hancock, and Allison Frendak. 2001. Perspectives of the Western European Union as portrayed in mainstream US media and other sources. In Conflict studies: Reflections on theory, practice, and research, ed. Alex Scheinman and Allison M. Frendak, 64-79. Fairfax, Va.: Graduate Students in Conflict Studies.

Frendak, Allison M. 2000. Religious dimensions in the battle for Kosovo: Violence and the sacred in the Serb mind.  In Religious considerations of peace operations: Summary of workshop proceedings, ed. Ivan L. King, 143-195. Arlington, Va.: Program on Peacekeeping Policy.

Farrand, Robert W. “Bill,” with Allison M. Frendak-Blume. Brcko: Bringing order to chaos. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press (forthcoming).