An Integrated Approach to Elections and Conflict About the Author Lisa Kammerud is a Research Officer at the F. Clifton White Applied Research Center for Democracy and Elections at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems in Washington, D.C. She is involved in a variety of research and programs related to elections and conflict and election dispute resolution. She manages the development and implementation of the Election Violence Education and Resolution (EVER) project, and has led field projects in Bangladesh, East Timor, Guyana, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Nigeria, and Senegal. She is the author of “Merging Conflict Management with Electoral Practice: The IFES Experience,” in Elections in Dangerous Places: Democracy and the Paradoxes of Peacebuilding, published in October 2011. Ms. Kammerud has been with IFES since 2003, and leading EVER programs since 2005. She holds an MA in international affairs (concentration in conflict resolution and international law) from George Washington University and a BA in international relations and history from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. 18