Erin Rebecca Bloom

Erin is a strong believer in the importance of well-designed frameworks to negotiate peace, implement anti-violence strategies, and transition from conflict to stability. Violence is brutal, chaotic and arbitrary, and peace is fragile and hard-won. However, it is not beyond the capacity of any community, city or country to achieve and maintain peace and stability. Erin has spent her career working to reduce violence and resolve conflict, both domestically and internationally, and has seen what can be achieved when communities and coalitions work together to advance anti-violence efforts.

Her areas of expertise include:

• Systems and process design in peace negotiations and transitional states.
• Capacity building, training and technical advising on peace processes, anti-violence initiatives and transitional governance.
• Coalition-building and stakeholder engagement.
• Legal and policy expertise in international humanitarian law, human rights law and international criminal law.
• Written communication and messaging strategy development.

Experience

• Field advisor on the Group Violence Intervention team at the National Network for Safe Communities.
• Counsel to the Syrian High Negotiations Committee with the Public International Law and Policy Group.
• United States Air Force veteran.

Erin has a B.A. in politics from Willamette University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has also earned a Certificate in Transnational Legal Studies from the University of Geneva, and was named a Truman Scholar in 2011.