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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.

Funding & financing

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

Affiliations

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

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.

Cases in this record

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Sources & disclosures