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Gregory H. Stanton

Gregory H. Stanton

Scholar-advocate — 'Ten Stages' model · United States

Affiliated with Genocide Watch

Advocacy NGO

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

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Money source

Works through Genocide Watch (private donations); academic posts.

Institutional alignment

Former US State Department official; founder-leader of an advocacy NGO.

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Disclosures & conflicts

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.

Credibility & caveats

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