Born in Canada, Dr. Nevin Aiken (PhD, University of British Columbia) is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics, Public Policy and International Studies at the University of Wyoming. His academic work has focused primarily on examining the impact of transitional justice interventions on post-conflict reconciliation in deeply divided societies as well as the broader social and psychological dynamics of identity underlying processes of intergroup violence, peacebuilding and reconciliation. Prior to joining the University of Wyoming in 2010, Nevin served as a Visiting Research Fellow with the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies and the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at the University of California, Irvine and as an Expert Consultant on post-conflict reconstruction for the United Nations Development Programme in Accra, Ghana. Since 2017, he has worked as a Visiting Research Fellow with the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University, Belfast in Northern Ireland. As an international scholar and educator, more recently Nevin has turned his expertise working in conflict-affected regions towards designing opportunities for transformative learning and leadership development outside of traditional academic settings and guiding student groups and community members on experiential travel programs to Northern Ireland and the Middle East.