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Gregory H. Stanton
Oberlin College, BA
Harvard Divinity School, MTS
Yale Law School, JD
University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology

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

He is past Vice President of (2005-2007) of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and its current President. In 1999, Stanton founded Genocide Watch and the International Campaign to End Genocide, a coalition of 30 non-governmental organizations dedicated to preventing, stopping, and punishing genocide.

Stanton was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2001 – 2002. He served in the State Department from 1992 to 1999, where he wrote the United Nations resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Stanton founded the Cambodian Genocide Project in 1981. He has worked for 25 years to create a tribunal to try the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, a project that came to fruition in 2006 with the creation of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, to which he is an Expert Adviser. From 2003 – 2007 he assisted the Cambodian government’s Tribunal Task Force by drafting rules of procedure and evidence and training Cambodian judges and prosecutors for the tribunal.

Stanton has been a Law Professor at Washington and Lee University and the University of Swaziland. He was a legal advisor to the Ukrainian independence movement. Stanton has degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School, and a Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago.

In 1994, Stanton was the recipient of the American Foreign Service Association's 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.

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