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Blog (79)

Interview
photo closeup of judge and gavel

Interview: ending lifetime parole for transformational youth

Bridget Conley April 2, 2025
Criminal Justice Reform Prison Restorative Justice Youth
Essay
Mint green background with the words, "Disrupting Peace," at the top and an orange graphic design at the bottom, with the words World Peace Foundation.

Disrupting peace and resisting the concentration of political power

Bridget Conley March 11, 2025
World peace
Essay
Mint green background with the words, "Disrupting Peace," at the top and an orange graphic design at the bottom, with the words World Peace Foundation.

Lessons from Disrupting Peace

Bridget Conley January 13, 2025
Arms trade Climate crisis Immigration Peacemaking Prison World peace
Gallery
Women’s shoes left at the museum, near a metal chair, with handcuffs.

Photographic evidence of torture at the Tigray Martyrs Memorial Museum

Birhan Gebrekristos Mezgebu, Bridget Conley November 5, 2024
Abiy ahmed Ethiopia Memorialization Tigray
Interview
Stone wall with a broken window, revealing the desecrated remains of some soldiers killed in the 1974 – 1991 war against the Derg.

Interview: torture at the Tigrayan Martys Memorial Museum

Birhan Gebrekristos Mezgebu, Bridget Conley November 5, 2024
Ethiopia Memorialization Tigray TPLF
Essay
Mint green background with the words, "Disrupting Peace," at the top and an orange graphic design at the bottom, with the words World Peace Foundation.

Introducing WPF’s podcast series: Disrupting Peace

Bridget Conley September 10, 2024
World peace
Interview
Crowd of people hold a banner that says, "Let Gaza Live."

Tracking the Pro-Palestinian protest movement: Interview with Jay Ulfelder

Bridget Conley, Jay Ulfelder September 9, 2024
Advocacy Conflict Data Gaza Human Rights
Essay
A simmering crater from a bomb in the foreground, a crowd of people behind.

Striking Parallels: Israel in comparative context with perpetrators of atrocities

Bridget Conley June 5, 2024
Gaza Genocide Israel Palestine
Essay
Black and White graphic, bars on window, with words"Closed."

Closing Prisons

Bridget Conley, B. Arneson January 26, 2024
Criminal Justice Reform Prison US
Essay
Historic poster, black text on white background stating, "The world court is a vote against world war."

The World Peace Foundation Champions the International Court of Justice

Alex de Waal January 9, 2024
Accountability Genocide Israel South Africa
Essay
Photo collage of Jorge Zerquera smiling and two pages of his writings

None was there when I had my fatal hour: on the death of Jorge L. Zerquera

Bridget Conley December 1, 2023
Prison Solitary Confinement
Gallery
Man drops a fishing net into a watery opening in ice against an icy white landscape

Disappearing Worlds: photos at the cusp of change

Bridget Conley September 19, 2023
Russia
Gallery
A man stands before a large window, and machinery to make license plates. One plate reads, "FUCK-IT".

On the Closure of the Walpole Prison

Bridget Conley September 8, 2023
Criminal Justice Reform Prison US
Essay
man sitting in a wheelchair

An exercise in mercy

Bridget Conley August 25, 2023
Justice Prison
Essay
barbed wire

On a Request for an Emergency Prison Intervention

Bridget Conley April 28, 2023
Prison
Essay
barbed wire

Dying in Prisons During the Pandemic

Bridget Conley February 24, 2023
Covid-19 DOC Pandemic Prison
Interview
two stills from zoom video, one with Armand Coleman and one with Bridget Conley

Interview with Armand Coleman of Transformational Prison Project

Bridget Conley February 2, 2023
Justice Prison
Essay
solitary

A tale of two prisons

Bridget Conley January 20, 2023
DOC Prison
Essay
Grainy security camera image of a group of five people on a tarmac near a plane.

Prisoner Swap: drug wars, prison conditions, & trafficking weapons

Bridget Conley December 13, 2022
Arms trade Prison Russia
Essay
Front page of Case 4:22-cv-40003 in the US District Court District of Massachusetts.

‘No More Rules’

Bridget Conley January 31, 2022
DOC Prison Violence
Essay
Close-up of a statue, gaunt face of a woman

Gender, Famine and Mortality

Bridget Conley December 10, 2021
Accountability Armed violence Famine Gender
Essay
Image of a flyer with heavy text, headline "Atrocity Alter: Tigrayan civilians and Oromo detainees in areas under Ethiopian government control."

Atrocity Alert: Tigrayan Civilians and Oromo detainees in areas under Ethiopian government control

Bridget Conley, Alex de Waal, Deborah Mayersen, Hollie Nyseth Brehm December 1, 2021
Ethiopia Tigray
Interview
rebecca tapscott & bridget conley

‘Institutionalized arbitrariness’: a conversation with Rebecca Tapscott

Bridget Conley October 5, 2021
Gender Security Violence
Essay
mom holding child in Tigray

What ‘Rape as a Weapon of War’ in Tigray Really Means

Dyan Mazurana, Hayelom K. Mekonen, Alex de Waal, Delia C. Burns, Bridget Conley August 10, 2021
GBV Rape Tigray
Essay
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No new prisons in Massachusetts

Bridget Conley July 23, 2021
DOC Prison
Essay
Srebrenica Genocide Memorial or Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial

The meaning and truth of genocide: reflections following the final decision on genocide and Ratko Mladic

Bridget Conley June 10, 2021
Bosnia Genocide Transitional justice
Essay
WPF circle logo

Who has died of COVID-19-related causes in Massachusetts’ prisons?: a discussion of data discrepancies

Bridget Conley May 20, 2021
Covid-19 DOC Responsibility to protect
Interview
photo of a woman in flowered dress facing grey granite wall

Eyewitness to Atrocities in Axum

Bridget Conley April 12, 2021
Armed violence Axum Eritrea Ethiopia
Essay
Black and white Photo of a man, displayed next to his skull, green rope and a toothbrush.

Slippage—how will the dead matter in Ethiopia?

Bridget Conley February 26, 2021
Ethiopia Memorialization
Interview
Two video boxes, one with Michael Cox and one with Bridget Conley.

Interview: Michael Cox on solidarity, LGBTQ rights & ending incarceration

Bridget Conley February 22, 2021
Advocacy Criminal Justice Reform Prison
Interview
Two video boxes, one with Michael Cox and one with Bridget Conley.

Interview with Michael Cox: Solidarity is the bedrock of advancing LGBTQ rights in prison

Bridget Conley February 1, 2021
Advocacy Criminal Justice Reform Prison
Interview
Cassandra Bensahih

Interview with Cassandra Bensahih on ending solitary and finding dignity

Bridget Conley January 6, 2021
Justice Responsibility to protect Solitary Confinement
Essay
Eagle in a circle, surrounded by words U.S. Department of Justice

Cruel and Unusual Punishment in Massachusetts

Bridget Conley December 16, 2020
DOJ Human Rights Prison
Interview
Interview with Stacey Borden: on trauma, COVID, and clemency for incarcerated women

Interview with Stacey Borden: on trauma, COVID, and clemency for incarcerated women

Bridget Conley November 30, 2020
Advocacy Covid-19 MADOC Prison
Interview
Arthur Bembury

Interview with Arthur Bembury: leader in supporting prison education and re-entry

Bridget Conley October 29, 2020
Justice Prison
Interview
prison aerial view

Human Rights Abuses in an MA prison: Interview with Patty DeJuneas

Bridget Conley October 13, 2020
Human Rights MADOC Prison
Essay
scales

Nobel Prize Adds Momentum to the Movement to End Starvation Crimes

Bridget Conley October 9, 2020
Accountability Mass Starvation UN Resolution 2417
Essay
Deaths in MADOC 2015-2020

New data from MADOC doesn& 8217 t change the question: why did so many people die...

Bridget Conley September 8, 2020
Covid-19 DOC MADOC Prison
Essay
Deaths in MADOC 2015-2020

Why did so many incarcerated people die in Massachusetts prisons in April 2020?

Bridget Conley September 1, 2020
Covid-19 MADOC Prison
Essay
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96 Deaths in Detention

Bridget Conley August 27, 2020
Covid-19 Human Rights Prison
Essay
WPF circle logo

New Dataset and Typology: How Mass Atrocities End

Bridget Conley July 8, 2020
Atrocities
Essay
Tourlentes

Tracking COVID-19 in places of detention: Illinois

Bridget Conley May 6, 2020
Covid-19 Prison
Interview
Two video boxes showing Xiaodon Liang and Bridget Conley

Interview with Xiaodon Liang: Typology of 3rd parties in the legal arms trade

Bridget Conley April 28, 2020
Arms trade Corruption
Interview
Adrienne Klein

A domestic turn: Interview with Adrienne Klein on COVID 19 in NYC

Bridget Conley April 22, 2020
Covid-19
Interview
Interview with Elliot Prasse-Freeman

On Rohingya identity in conflict: Interview with Elliot Prasse-Freeman

Bridget Conley April 3, 2020
Myanmar Rohingya
Essay
Cuomo holding hand sanitizer

Condemned to Coronavirus?

Bridget Conley April 2, 2020
Covid-19 Human Rights Prison US
Interview
Catherine Besteman

A domestic turn: Interview with Catherine Besteman

Bridget Conley March 10, 2020
Justice Migration
Essay
Photo of National Museum of African American History and Culture exterior against bright blue sky

Is the National Museum of African American History and Culture a memorial museum?

Bridget Conley February 28, 2020
Memorialization Racism US
Interview
karen jacobsen

A domestic turn — interview with Karen Jacobsen

Bridget Conley February 20, 2020
Human Rights Immigration Migration
Interview
Bret McEvoy

A domestic turn: interview with Bret McEvoy

Bridget Conley February 18, 2020
Gender Transitional justice
Interview
Alex Hinton

A domestic turn: interview with Alex Hinton

Bridget Conley February 11, 2020
Cambodia Genocide Violence
Essay
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A domestic turn –Introduction

Bridget Conley February 10, 2020
Human Rights Prison
Essay
scales

The Purposes of Starvation: historical and contemporary uses

Bridget Conley February 4, 2020
Accountability Humanitarian Law Mass Starvation
Interview
hope

Archiving Syria’s Creative Memory — an interview with Sana Yazigi

Bridget Conley January 24, 2020
Armed violence Memorialization Syria
Essay
Memory from the Margins Books

The Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum on Ethiopia’s memorial landscape

Bridget Conley April 8, 2019
Ethiopia Memorialization
Essay
Memory from the Margins Books

Memory from the Margins

Bridget Conley April 2, 2019
Democracy Ethiopia Transitional justice
Essay
RTMMM book cover

Introducing ‘Memory from the Margins: Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum’

Bridget Conley March 25, 2019
Ethiopia Memorialization Transitional justice
Essay
Museum Activism

New book chapter: Memorial Museums at the Intersection of Politics, Exhibition and Trauma

Bridget Conley January 23, 2019
Ethiopia Memorialization
Essay
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How can famines be ended?

Alex de Waal April 19, 2018
Accountability Africa Cambodia China Famine
faces with Muluneh

Ethiopia’s new prison memorial museum?

Bridget Conley January 16, 2018
Ethiopia Memorialization Prison
Essay
photo of multi-level beige building across a body of water

The doors close at the ICTY

Bridget Conley December 21, 2017
Bosnia Humanitarian Law ICC ICTY
Essay
WPF circle logo

The Mladic judgment and the one ‘not guilty’ verdict

Bridget Conley November 22, 2017
Bosnia Genocide Yugoslavia
Essay
WPF circle logo

The fiction of collective and personal memory

Bridget Conley October 31, 2017
Memorialization Peacemaking Transitional justice
Essay
rendering of atomic bomb mushroom cloud orange and yellow

Do nuclear threats constitute incitement to genocide?

Bridget Conley October 11, 2017
Genocide Iran Israel Nuclear weapons
Video
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Video: How a statue unveiled the President

Bridget Conley September 19, 2017
Equality Memorialization US
Essay
CNN better than parents chart

How a statue unveiled the President, part 2

Bridget Conley September 7, 2017
Equality Memorialization Racism US
Essay
photo of Jefferson Memorial from below looking up at text

How a statue unveiled the President, part 1

Bridget Conley September 6, 2017
Memorialization Racism US
Essay
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The ‘Politics of Protection’

Bridget Conley July 5, 2017
African Union Atrocities
Essay
911 Memorial fountain

On Visiting the September 11 Memorial and Museum

Bridget Conley June 19, 2017
Memorialization Terrorism
Essay
WPF circle logo

Re-visiting The Red Line

Bridget Conley April 7, 2017
Armed violence Syria US
Essay
chart

How mass atrocities end: compendium of 40 case studies

Bridget Conley January 31, 2017
Atrocities Violence
Interview
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Interview with Fred Bauma and Sylvain Saluseke

Bridget Conley December 1, 2016
Democracy DRC
Essay
Eisenhower quote

Eisenhower on “our charted course”

Bridget Conley September 12, 2016
Department of Defense Military spending US
Essay
cups

On memory, coffee and an imperfect circle

Bridget Conley July 27, 2016
Bosnia Memorialization
Essay
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How Mass Atrocities End: new publication

Bridget Conley May 27, 2016
Bosnia Burundi Genocide Guatemala Indonesia
Essay
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From The Hague to Abidjan: Whither Transitional Justice in Côte d’Ivoire?

Saskia Brechenmacher April 21, 2016
Bosnia Cote d'Ivoire Genocide ICC
Essay
Ten deadliest Bosnian towns

On the Conviction of Karadzic: Looking beyond 40 years

Bridget Conley March 24, 2016
Bosnia Genocide ICTY
Essay
WPF circle logo

Occasional Paper: Assessing the Anti-Atrocity Toolbox

Bridget Conley February 29, 2016
Atrocities Bosnia Rwanda
Essay
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A provocation on Burundi

Bridget Conley January 30, 2016
Atrocities Burundi

Publication (17)

Report

What Matters Most for Reentry: Lessons from the Transformational Prison Project

B. Arneson June 27, 2025
Book Chapter

Genocide, Starvation and Famine

Bridget Conley June 23, 2023
Book Chapter

Triptych: Seeing Children Born of Wartime Rape

Bridget Conley January 3, 2023
Book

Accountability for Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law

Bridget Conley Accountability for Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law
Paper

Ending Solitary Isolation: Is it within reach in Massachusetts?

Bridget Conley January 1, 2022
Paper

Gender, Famine and the Female Mortality Advantage

Kinsey Spears December 1, 2021
Book Chapter

What Justice for Starvation Crimes?

Alex de Waal September 3, 2021
Paper

Forgotten Victims?:Women and COVID-19 Behind Bars

Amaia Elorza Arregi November 1, 2020
Paper

96 Deaths in Detention: A View of COVID-19 in the Federal Bureau of Prisons as Captured...

Bridget Conley August 1, 2020
Paper

Accountability for Starvation Crimes: South Sudan

Tong Deng Anei July 17, 2019
Book

Memory from the Margins: Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum

Bridget Conley Memory from the Margins
Book Chapter

Memorial museums at the intersection of politics, exhibition and trauma

Bridget Conley January 23, 2019
Paper

Can we prosecute starvation?

Bridget Conley May 1, 2018
Paper

Advancing an Anti-Atrocity Agenda for the 21st Century

Bridget Conley June 1, 2016
Book

How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq

Bridget Conley How Mass Atrocities End Book cover
Paper

Assessing the Anti-Atrocity Toolbox

Bridget Conley February 1, 2016
Book Chapter

The Pistol on the Wall: How Coercive Military Intervention Limits Atrocity Prevention Policies

Bridget Conley September 5, 2015

Project (11)

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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence & Starvation

View Project about Sexual and Gender-Based Violence & Starvation
abstract illustration representing mass incarceration

Countering the Criminalization of Care

View Project about Countering the Criminalization of Care
abstract illustration representing mass incarceration

Restorative Justice and Reentry: Nurturing Community Care through Anti-Carceral Organizations

View Project about Restorative Justice and Reentry: Nurturing Community Care through Anti-Carceral Organizations
abstract illustration representing arms trade

Revitalizing Debate on the Arms Trade

View Project about Revitalizing Debate on the Arms Trade
abstract illustration representing hunger

Accountability for Starvation

View Project about Accountability for Starvation
abstract illustration representing arms trade

Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict

View Project about Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict
abstract illustration representing arms trade

Myths of the Arms Trade

View Project about Myths of the Arms Trade
abstract illustration representing atrocities

In Their Presence: Debates on the Dignity, Display and Ownership of Human Remains

View Project about In Their Presence: Debates on the Dignity, Display and Ownership of Human Remains
abstract illustration representing atrocities

How Mass Atrocities End

View Project about How Mass Atrocities End
abstract illustration representing mass incarceration

Probing the Limits of Carcerality 

View Project about Probing the Limits of Carcerality 
abstract illustration representing mass incarceration

COVID Diagnosed the System

View Project about COVID Diagnosed the System

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Bridget Conley

Bridget Conley

Research Director, WPF

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