GREGORY STANTON

'Gregory H. Stanton' is the founder (1999) and president of ''Genocide Watch'' Genocide Watch, the founder (1981) and director of the ''Cambodian Genocide Project'', and is the founder (1999) and Chair of the ''International Campaign to End Genocide''. He is the Vice President (2005 - 2007) of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Contents
Early life and academic background
Career
Publications
Books
References
Articles
External links

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 of 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 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.
Since leaving the State Department in 1999 to found Genocide Watch, Stanton has been deeply involved in the U.N. - Cambodian government negotiations that have brought about creation of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, for which he has drafted internal rules of procedure and evidence. From 1999 - 2000, he also served as Co-Chair of the Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court.
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.

Publications



GenocideWatch.org - The website is kept up to date on a daily basis by Genocide Watch staff. It was developed to be accessible to slow computers with dial-up access world-wide, and so is text only. A higher graphics version is being developed as of June 2006.
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


The Eight Stages of Genocide, 1996

Building An Anti-Genocide Regime, 2006

Seeking Justice in Cambodia, 2006

Proving Genocide in Darfur: The Atrocities Documentation Project and Resistance to Its Findings, 2006

Factors Facilitating or Impeding Genocide (PDF)

Early Warning in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, 2005

Facing Mass Murder in Zimbabwe, with Kevin Engle, August 2005

Twelve Ways To Deny A Genocide, September 2004

Eight Stages of Genocide Mural Painted in Belfast, September 2004

Five Misconceptions About Using The Word Genocide

Could the Rwandan Genocide Have Been Prevented?, June 2004

Bloodbath in the Making: Darfur, Sudan, 2 April 2004

The Genocide Prevention Center: A Proposal, March, 2004

Genocide Watch: India, Those Who Own The Past Own The Future, Aegis Review, Winter 2003-2004, September 2003

Perfection Is The Enemy of Justice, Phnom Penh Post, Bangkok Post 2003

The Call, 2002

How We Can Prevent Genocide, 2000

War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity in East Timor: Options for an International Criminal Tribunal, August 1999

End Imperial Impunity In These Times magazine, December 1999

The Cambodian Genocide And International Law, 1993

Blue Scarves and Yellow Stars, The Faulds Lecture, Warren Wilson College, 1987

Cambodian Resurrection Yale Law Report, 1981

External links



Bio at Cambodian Genocide Group (CGG)

Bio at Armenian Foreign Ministry

Article A Quest for Justice, Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine

Article His Brother's Keeper, American Bar Association: Young Lawyer

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