Dr. Jared O. Bell is a post-conflict development expert with technical focuses on justice, human rights, and reconciliation.He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Duquesne University in International Relations, a Master of Science Degree from the University of Baltimore in Negotiation and Conflict Management, and a PhD from Nova Southeastern University in Conflict Analysis and Resolution with a focus in International Peace and Conflict. Jared is currently based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina where he works in USAID Mission’s to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Democracy Office where he serves as a Democracy and Governance Advisor. He also manages USAID Bosnia and Herzegovina’s “Accounting for Persons Missing from the Conflicts of the 1990s” and "Local Capacity Development Activities". Prior to that, he worked in the Mission's Program and Project Office leading the process of program and activity design across its $30M annual portfolio spanning human rights, peace-building/reconciliation, rule of law and justice, education, and economic development. Jared serves as the head of the Mission’s Committee for Diversity and Inclusion where he works to oversee the implementation of a two year work plan dedicated strengthening diversity and inclusion policies in line with agency goals. Jared has also worked on various human rights, peace building, and development projects with a variety of organizations such as Peace Direct, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Human Rights Council, as well as, the American Red Cross and the Maryland Office of Refugees and Asylees. He has also taught, presented, and lectured across the globe in such places as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Poland, The Gambia, and the United States. A prolific writer, Jared has published numerous articles on human rights, transitional justice, reconciliation and peace building, and is the author of the book “Frozen Justice: Lessons from Bosnia Herzegovina's Failed Transitional Justice Strategy” published with Vernon Press in 2018. In addition to his formal education, Jared has also studied and received professional training at the University of Leiden’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies’ Summer School for Human Rights and Transitional Justice, the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights studies, the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization’s Venice Academy of Human Rights, the Universities of Groningen and Rijeka’s Cres Summer on “Transitional Justice and the Politics of Memory”, and Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.