Nealin Parker is currently a Research Associate in the Peacekeeping Program at the Center on International Cooperation.  Prior to her current position, she spent seven years working on development, conflict prevention and post-conflict transitions in Africa, Latin America and South East Asia.

Nealin is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she conducted a year-long study of post-conflict tribunals in Muslim cultures as a Religion and Diplomacy Fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute for Self Determination.  Her experience and research interests include post-conflict reconstruction, especially peacekeeping, and the implementation of peace agreements; the Rule of Law, specifically post-conflict elections, managing constitution building processes, and post-conflict justice; and conflict prevention.

Nealin's travel writing and photographs have appeared in the Lexington New Gazette and been exhibited at the Bernstein Gallery in Princeton, New Jersey. She authored a book on her experience as an elections consultant in Liberia, Take a Right at the Tank and Other Ways to Get Home, and is co-author of a 2008 report on reforming Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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