Bridget Conley-Zilkic is Research Director of World Peace Foundation, where she currently leads research on the How Mass Atrocities End project. She is also an Assistant Research Professor at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Professor Conley-Zilkic has published multiple essays on mass atrocity prevention and response, and on the potential for museums to engage human rights issues. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University in 2001.