Gregory H. Stanton
Scholar-advocate — 'Ten Stages' model · United States
Affiliated with Genocide Watch
Founder of Genocide Watch; created the Ten Stages model. As a US State Department official he helped draft the resolutions that created the Rwanda tribunal.
Financing
personWorks through Genocide Watch (private donations); academic posts.
Former US State Department official; founder-leader of an advocacy NGO.
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Served in the US State Department (1980s–1990s) and helped draft Security Council resolutions creating the ICTR. Genocide Watch accepts private donations with limited public financial disclosure; country stage rankings are analyst-issued, not member-voted.
Hugely influential conceptual framework. His organization's country rankings have been criticized as methodologically opaque, so weigh his stage models as heuristics rather than data.
How this source is used
This profile is used to weigh publishers, investigators, officials, or source material cited inside case evidence. It may not itself issue a genocide determination for a case. See the methodology for the source-weighting rules.
Sources & disclosures
- Ten Stages of Genocide — Genocide Watch