Gregory Stanton

Gregory H. Stanton is the founder (1999) and president of "Genocide Watch" [http://www.genocidewatch.org/ Genocide Watch] ] , the founder (1981) and director of the "Cambodian Genocide Project", and the founder (1999) and Chair of the "International Campaign to End Genocide". He is currently the President (2007 - 2009) of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Early life and academic background

Gregory Stanton comes from the lineage of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's suffrage activist, and Henry Brewster Stanton, an anti-slavery leader. Actively involved in human rights since the 1960's, when he was a voting rights worker in Mississippi, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast, and as the Church World Service/CARE Field Director in Cambodia in 1980.

He has been a Law Professor at Washington and Lee University, American University and the University of Swaziland.

Stanton is the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

He has degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Law School, and a Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2001-2002).

Career

Dr. Stanton was a law professor at Washington and Lee University from 1985 - 1991, was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Swaziland, and was a professor of Justice, Law, and Society at the American University. He founded the Cambodian Genocide Project at Yale in 1981 and since then has been a driving force to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice. Stanton was deeply involved in the U.N. - Cambodian government negotiations that have brought about the creation of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, for which he has drafted internal rules of procedure and evidence.

Dr. Stanton served in the State Department (1992-1999), where he drafted the United Nations Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry, and the Central African Arms Flow Commission. He also drafted the U.N. Peacekeeping Operations resolutions that helped bring about an end to the Mozambique civil war. In 1994, Stanton won the American Foreign Service Association's prestigious W. Averell Harriman award for "extraordinary contributions to the practice of diplomacy exemplifying intellectual courage," based on his dissent from U.S. policy on the Rwandan genocide. He wrote the State Department options paper on ways to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice in Cambodia.

Stanton left the State Department in 1999 to found Genocide Watch. From 1999 to 2000, he also served as Co-Chair of the Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court. Genocide Watch is the Chair and Coordinator of the International Campaign to End Genocide, which includes 30 organizations in 11 countries, including the Minority Rights Group, the International Crisis Group, the Aegis Trust, Survival International, and the Genocide Intervention Network.

Before he joined the State Department, Stanton was a legal advisor to RUKH, the Ukrainian independence movement, work for which he was named the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America's 1992 Man of the Year. He was the Chair of the American Bar Association Young Lawyer's Division Committee on Human Rights and a member of the A.B.A.'s Standing Committee on World Order Under Law.

In 2007, Stanton was elected President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, to serve until 2009. He served as First Vice President of the Association from 2005 to 2007.

Publications

* [http://www.genocidewatch.org GenocideWatch.org] - The website is kept up to date on a regular basis by Genocide Watch staff.

Books

* "The Eight Stages of Genocide: How Governments Can Tell When Genocide Is Coming and What They Can Do To Stop It" (forthcoming, Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

References

Articles

* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/8stages.htm The Eight Stages of Genocide] , 1996
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/BuildingAnAnti-GenocideRegimebyGregoryStanton.htm Building An Anti-Genocide Regime] , 2006
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/CambodiaSEEKINGJUSTICEINCAMBODIAbyGregoryStantoninTatzGenocidePerspectivesIII.htm Seeking Justice in Cambodia] , 2006
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/SudanProvinggenocideinDarfurbyGregoryHStanton.htm Proving Genocide in Darfur: The Atrocities Documentation Project and Resistance to Its Findings] , 2006
* [http://www.armeniaforeignministry.com/conference/gregory_stanton.pdf Factors Facilitating or Impeding Genocide] (PDF)
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/EarlyWarningbyGregoryStanton.htm Early Warning] in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, 2005
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/ZimbabweFacingMassMurder12August2005.htm Facing Mass Murder in Zimbabwe] , with Kevin Engle, August 2005
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/SudanTwelveWaysToDenyAGenocidebyGregStanton.htm Twelve Ways To Deny A Genocide] , September 2004
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/EightStagesMuralinBelfast25sept2004.htm Eight Stages of Genocide Mural Painted in Belfast] , September 2004
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/FIVEMISCONCEPTIONSABOUTUSINGTHEWORDGENOCIDEbyGregoryStanton.htm Five Misconceptions About Using The Word Genocide]
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/COULDTHERWANDANGENOCIDEHAVEBEENPREVENTEDbyGregoryStanton.htm Could the Rwandan Genocide Have Been Prevented?] , June 2004
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/SudanDarfurStantonBloodbathintheMakingTorontoGlobeandMail2April2004.htm Bloodbath in the Making: Darfur, Sudan] , 2 April 2004
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/GenocidePreventionCenterproposalbyGregoryStanton.htm The Genocide Prevention Center: A Proposal] , March, 2004
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/IndiaThoseWhoOwnThePastOwnTheFuturebyGregStanton.htm Genocide Watch: India, Those Who Own The Past Own The Future] , Aegis Review, Winter 2003-2004, September 2003
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/PerfectionIsTheEnemyofJustice.htm Perfection Is The Enemy of Justice] , Phnom Penh Post, Bangkok Post 2003
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/the%20Call.htm The Call] , 2002
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/preventgenocide.htm How We Can Prevent Genocide] , 2000
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/Timoroptions.htm War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity in East Timor: Options for an International Criminal Tribunal] , August 1999
* [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/International_War_Crimes/EndImperialImpunity.html End Imperial Impunity] In These Times magazine, December 1999
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/THE%20CAMBODIAN%20GENOCIDE%20AND%20INTERNATIONAL%20LAW.htm The Cambodian Genocide And International Law] , 1993
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/bluescarves.htm Blue Scarves and Yellow Stars] , The Faulds Lecture, Warren Wilson College, 1987
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/Cambodian%20Resurrection.htm Cambodian Resurrection] Yale Law Report, 1981

External links

* [http://www.cambodiangenocide.org/stanton.htm Bio] at Cambodian Genocide Group (CGG)
* [http://www.armeniaforeignministry.com/conference/speakers.html Bio] at Armenian Foreign Ministry
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/aquestforjustice.html Article] A Quest for Justice, Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine
* [http://www.genocidewatch.org/hisbrotherskeeper.html Article] His Brother's Keeper, American Bar Association: Young Lawyer