Genocide Prevention, A Talk with Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
Episode description
On this podcast lawyer and GLA President Jason Poblete speaks with Dr. Gregory H. Stanton is the founding president and chairman of Genocide Watch.From 2010 to 2019, he was a research professor in genocide studies and prevention at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, USA. From 2003 to 2009, he was the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dr. Stanton founded Genocide Watch in 1999. He was the founder (1981) and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project and is currently the founder (1999) and chair of the Alliance Against Genocide, the world’s first anti-genocide coalition.
From 2007-2009, he was the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. In addition, genocide Watch seeks to raise awareness and influence public policy concerning potential and actual genocide. Genocide Watch uses predictive models such as Dr. Gregory Stanton’s “The Ten Stages of Genocide” to analyze high-risk situations for education, policy analysis, and advocacy.
Further Reading
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations).
- The Ten Stages of Genocide
- Customary International Humanitarian Database (Int'l Committee of the Red Cross).