Dr. Vilma “Nina” Balmaceda is a scholar-practitioner at Duke University whose work centers on civic leadership development and education for justpeace and reconciliation. Nina is the director of the Center for Reconciliation and the Irene and William McCutchen associate professor of the Practice of Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, where she teaches theology and practice of conflict transformation and leads several key initiatives, including the Certificate in Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation, the Americas Initiative for Transformation and Reconciliation, and the Certificate in Faith-based Organizing, Advocacy, and Social Transformation. A former Fulbright scholar, Nina holds a PhD in Political Science, MA in International Peace Studies, MA in Government and International Studies, all from the University of Notre Dame; and a Licentiate in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru’s School of Law, where she previously taught courses on International Human Rights.