Gregory H. Stanton
Dr. Gregory Stanton is Founding President of Genocide Watch and Chair of the Alliance Against Genocide. He was Research Professor in Genocide Studies at George Mason University and was the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington. He was a fellow at the Indian Law Institute and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He directed the relief program in Phnom Penh, Cambodia following the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime. He founded the Cambodian Genocide Project in 1982. While in the State Department, he drafted the UN Security Council Resolutions that established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He was a driving force in the establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. He proposed and lobbied for creation of the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. He was President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is best known for his Ten Stages of Genocide model of the genocidal process, used by teachers, governments, and the UN. He holds degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago.