Dr. Gregory H. Stanton is the James Farmer Professor of Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia. He is President of Genocide Watch and Chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide. He is President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
After practicing international law with Foley and Lardner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dr. Stanton became a Law Professor at Washington and Lee University in 1985. He was a Fulbright Professor of Law at the University of Swaziland in 1989 - 1990. He was a legal advisor to the Ukrainian independence movement from 1988 through 1992, and helped draft the post-communist Ukrainian constitution.
Dr. Stanton served in the State Department from 1992 to 1999, where he wrote the United Nations resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, as well as many other resolutions on human rights and international peacekeeping.
Dr. Stanton was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2001 – 2002. He has been the James Farmer Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington since 2003.
Dr. Stanton founded the Cambodian Genocide Project in 1981. He has worked for 26 years to create a tribunal to try the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders. From 2003 – 2007 he has assisted the Cambodian government’s Tribunal Task Force by drafting rules of procedure and evidence and training Cambodian judges and prosecutors for the tribunal.
In 1999, Dr. Stanton founded Genocide Watch and the International Campaign to End Genocide, a coalition of 30 non-governmental organizations in eleven countries on five continents dedicated to preventing, stopping, and punishing genocide. In 2007, he co-founded the inter-religious Alliance to Abolish Genocide.
Stanton has degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School, and a Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago. He has contributed scores of chapters and articles to books and scholarly publications. He is currently completing a book, entitled The Eight Stages of Genocide to be published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press.