Jared O. Bell


Jared O. Bell is a former USAID Foreign Service Officer, adjunct professor at New York University Center for Global Affairs, and member of the Crisis and Governance Community of Practice at the Cornell Brooks School Center on Global Democracy. With more than 15 years of experience leading international development and governance programs across Central Asia, Africa, the Balkans, and Latin America, his work focuses on transitional justice, post-conflict peacebuilding, and human rights. He is the author of Frozen Justice: Lessons From Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Failed Transitional Justice Strategy and is currently completing a book on selective empathy and mass atrocities in global affairs.

Articles by Jared O. Bell
A woman walks past a photo depicting people in Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on July 13, 2025.
A woman walks past a photo depicting people in Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on July 13, 2025.