Johanna Mendelson Forman, PhD

conflict cuisine
washington dc, usa

Johanna Mendelson Forman, PhD is an Adjunct Professor at American University’s School of International Service. She is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center, where she heads the Food Security Program.

Her frontline experience as a policy maker on conflict and stabilization efforts drove her interest in connecting the role of food in conflict, resulting in the creation of Conflict Cuisine®: An Introduction to War and Peace Around the Dinner Table.

As a Consortium partner of the LIFE Project, she is managing the gastrodiplomacy component of the program to support Syrian refugees and the host community in Turkey who are using food as a tool for social integration.

In 2019 she co-edited the LIFE Project cookbook: The Cuisine of LIFE: Recipes and Stories of the New Food Entrepreneurs of Turkey. Mendelson Forman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier.