Bridget Conley publications
Books
Books
Memory from the Margins: Ethiopia's Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum
by Bridget Conley (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational, national and local forces as they converge in the story of the creation and continued life of one modest museum in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa—the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum. It is a study from multiple margins: neither the case of Ethiopia nor memorialization is central to transitional justice discourse, and within Ethiopia, the history of the Red Terror is sidelined in contemporary politics. From these nested margins, traumatic memory emerges as an ambiguous social and political force. The contributions, meaning and limitations of memory emerge at the point of discrete interactions between memory advocates, survivor-docents and visitors. Memory from the margins is revealed as powerful for how it disrupts, not builds, new forms of community.
How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq. (“Introduction” and “Bosnia-Herzegovina: Endings Real and Imagined”)
Edited by Bridget Conley-Zilkic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Given the brutality of mass atrocities, it is no wonder that one question dominates research and policy: what can we, who are not at risk, do to prevent such violence and hasten endings? But this question skips a more fundamental question for understanding the trajectory of violence: how do mass atrocities actually end? This volume presents an analysis of the processes, decisions, and factors that help bring about the end of mass atrocities. It includes qualitatively rich case studies from Burundi, Guatemala, Indonesia, Sudan, Bosnia, and Iraq, drawing patterns from wide-ranging data. As such, it offers a much needed correction to the popular ‘salvation narrative’ framing mass atrocity in terms of good and evil. The nuanced, multidisciplinary approach followed here represents not only an essential tool for scholars, but an important step forward in improving civilian protection.
Book Chapters
Conley, Bridget. 2019. “Memorial museums at the intersection of politics, exhibition and trauma: A study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum” in Museums and Activism ed. Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell. London: Routledge.
“From Memory To Action: How a Holocaust Museum Works to Prevent Genocide.”Museums Fighting for Human Rights, ed. Greg Chamberlain (England and Wales: Museum-ID, 2011).
Reports & Papers
"Preventing and Respond to Mass Atrocities: Insights for the African Union" World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, African Politics, African Peace Research Briefing Paper, June 2016.
"Clashing Measures of Legitimacy in African Security Sector Reform: Implications for Efforts to Protect Civilians" Human Security Institute at The Fletcher School, Occasional Paper, June 2016, 1:3.
with Saskia Brechenmacher and Aditya Sarkar. "Assessing the anti-Atrocity Toolbox" World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, Occasional Paper, February 2016.
"What Barbed Wire Can't Enclose", Alphabet City 7: Social Insecurity (Toronto), Sept. 2000.
Articles & Op-Eds
"The Politics of Protection': Assessing the African Union's Contributions to Reducing Violence Against Civilians" International Peacekeeping 24:2, 566 - 589, 2017.
"What Counts at the End Questioning Consensus in the Construction of Mass Atrocity Narratives" Global Responsibility to Protect 9:1, 15 - 37, 2017.
with Alex de Waal.“Setting the Agenda for Evidence-based Research on Ending Mass Atrocities.” Journal of Genocide Research, Volume 16 Issue 1: 55-76, 2014
with de Waal, Alex. “What Sir William Would do in Syria.” The New York Times. September 5, 2013
with de Waal Alex, and Jens Meierhenrich. 2012. “How Mass Atrocities End: An Evidence Based Counter Narrative.” Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vo.l 35:3 (Winter 2011)
with David Small. “From Memory To Action: Engaging Visitors in a Holocaust Museum."Interpretation: Journal of the Association for Heritage Interpretation (2011)
“For Chechnya’s Women, Hope Dies Last,” Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 3 No. 3, 2004.
Interviews & Lectures
Andy Heintz Interview with Bridget Conley, "Oversimplifying Conflicts Doesn’t Help Protect Civilians", Foreign Policy in Focus, March 1, 2018
Exhibitions and Multimedia Productions
Host, Voices on Genocide Prevention, monthly online audio interview program (January 2008 – August 2011).
Curator, From Memory To Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide Today, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (open 2009 - 2014).
Producer, multimedia presentation, Our Walls Bear Witness, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (November 20 – 27, 2006)
Producer, “Defying Genocide” (15 mins., U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience, 2006).
Curator, Abandoned At Srebrenica: Ten Years Later, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, (July 2005).
Producer and Director, “Darfur Eyewitness” (10 mins., U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience, 2005).
Books
Memory from the Margins: Ethiopia's Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum
by Bridget Conley (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational, national and local forces as they converge in the story of the creation and continued life of one modest museum in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa—the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum. It is a study from multiple margins: neither the case of Ethiopia nor memorialization is central to transitional justice discourse, and within Ethiopia, the history of the Red Terror is sidelined in contemporary politics. From these nested margins, traumatic memory emerges as an ambiguous social and political force. The contributions, meaning and limitations of memory emerge at the point of discrete interactions between memory advocates, survivor-docents and visitors. Memory from the margins is revealed as powerful for how it disrupts, not builds, new forms of community.
How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq. (“Introduction” and “Bosnia-Herzegovina: Endings Real and Imagined”)
Edited by Bridget Conley-Zilkic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Given the brutality of mass atrocities, it is no wonder that one question dominates research and policy: what can we, who are not at risk, do to prevent such violence and hasten endings? But this question skips a more fundamental question for understanding the trajectory of violence: how do mass atrocities actually end? This volume presents an analysis of the processes, decisions, and factors that help bring about the end of mass atrocities. It includes qualitatively rich case studies from Burundi, Guatemala, Indonesia, Sudan, Bosnia, and Iraq, drawing patterns from wide-ranging data. As such, it offers a much needed correction to the popular ‘salvation narrative’ framing mass atrocity in terms of good and evil. The nuanced, multidisciplinary approach followed here represents not only an essential tool for scholars, but an important step forward in improving civilian protection.
Conley, Bridget. 2019. “Memorial museums at the intersection of politics, exhibition and trauma: A study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum” in Museums and Activism ed. Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell. London: Routledge.
“From Memory To Action: How a Holocaust Museum Works to Prevent Genocide.”Museums Fighting for Human Rights, ed. Greg Chamberlain (England and Wales: Museum-ID, 2011).
"Preventing and Respond to Mass Atrocities: Insights for the African Union" World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, African Politics, African Peace Research Briefing Paper, June 2016.
"Clashing Measures of Legitimacy in African Security Sector Reform: Implications for Efforts to Protect Civilians" Human Security Institute at The Fletcher School, Occasional Paper, June 2016, 1:3.
with Saskia Brechenmacher and Aditya Sarkar. "Assessing the anti-Atrocity Toolbox" World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, Occasional Paper, February 2016.
"What Barbed Wire Can't Enclose", Alphabet City 7: Social Insecurity (Toronto), Sept. 2000.
"The Politics of Protection': Assessing the African Union's Contributions to Reducing Violence Against Civilians" International Peacekeeping 24:2, 566 - 589, 2017.
"What Counts at the End Questioning Consensus in the Construction of Mass Atrocity Narratives" Global Responsibility to Protect 9:1, 15 - 37, 2017.
with Alex de Waal.“Setting the Agenda for Evidence-based Research on Ending Mass Atrocities.” Journal of Genocide Research, Volume 16 Issue 1: 55-76, 2014
with de Waal, Alex. “What Sir William Would do in Syria.” The New York Times. September 5, 2013
with de Waal Alex, and Jens Meierhenrich. 2012. “How Mass Atrocities End: An Evidence Based Counter Narrative.” Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vo.l 35:3 (Winter 2011)
with David Small. “From Memory To Action: Engaging Visitors in a Holocaust Museum."Interpretation: Journal of the Association for Heritage Interpretation (2011)
“For Chechnya’s Women, Hope Dies Last,” Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 3 No. 3, 2004.
Andy Heintz Interview with Bridget Conley, "Oversimplifying Conflicts Doesn’t Help Protect Civilians", Foreign Policy in Focus, March 1, 2018
Host, Voices on Genocide Prevention, monthly online audio interview program (January 2008 – August 2011).
Curator, From Memory To Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide Today, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (open 2009 - 2014).
Producer, multimedia presentation, Our Walls Bear Witness, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (November 20 – 27, 2006)
Producer, “Defying Genocide” (15 mins., U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience, 2006).
Curator, Abandoned At Srebrenica: Ten Years Later, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, (July 2005).
Producer and Director, “Darfur Eyewitness” (10 mins., U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience, 2005).
Spotlight
Memory from the Margins: Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum by Bridget Conley (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational, national and local forces as they converge in the story of the creation and continued life of one modest museum in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa—the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum. It is a study from multiple margins: neither the case of Ethiopia nor memorialization is central to transitional justice discourse, and within Ethiopia, the history of the Red Terror is sidelined in contemporary politics. From these nested margins, traumatic memory emerges as an ambiguous social and political force. The contributions, meaning and limitations of memory emerge at the point of discrete interactions between memory advocates, survivor-docents and visitors. Memory from the margins is revealed as powerful for how it disrupts, not builds, new forms of community.