Prevent and Punish ISIS’s Genocide and Syria’s Crimes Against Humanity and Rescue and Protect the Victims         Professor Gregory Stanton (Genocide Watch) Professor Elihu Richter (Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention) Professor Irwin Cotler (Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights) Lisa Miari (Springs of Hope Foundation) Professor Muhammed Dajani (Wasatia)       March 21, 2016       A Call From Genocide Watch (Washington

News articles posted on this website and the opinions of Genocide Watch do not express the views of George Mason University or its School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Burundi: 'A genocide is being prepared and the UN will be too late' Elsa Buchanan, International Business Times 29 March 2016 A forensic expert examines the skull of an unknown person killed and buried in a mass grave in Mutakura, north of Burundi's capital Bujumbura, February

We can stop killings before they happen The Nation, Nairobi, Kenya 9 March 2016 By Gregory H Stanton   In Nigeria, Boko Haram has murdered thousands.  In Libya, ISIS is establishing strongholds just across the Mediterranean from Europe. The government of Sudan has killed over three million of its own people and continues genocides in Darfur, Blue Nile, and South Kordofan. South Sudan is gripped by a civil war that could see thousands more

We Can't Ignore The Worrying Signs of Genocide in Africa Gregory Stanton, Mail and Guardian, South Africa 29 January 2016     How do we make sure there’s not a return to the horror of Rwanda or Biafra? I have spent a lifetime working on the study of genocide, what causes it and how we can prevent the kind of mass killing that haunted the past century. From Armenia and the Nazi Holocaust to the Soviet Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution,

Testimony presented to the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and International Organizations of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 9 December 2015 Weak Words Are Not Enough Statement of Professor Gregory H. Stanton President, Genocide Watch Research Professor, George Mason University   Members of Congress, it is an honor to testify before this committee about the crimes of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which is

ISIS is Committing Genocide Dr. Gregory H. Stanton 14 October 2015   Members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the world’s largest organization of experts on genocide, have called upon the U.S. Congress to declare that the crimes committed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Da’esh, constitute genocide in violation of the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime

The Islamic State is committing genocide Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, Washington Examiner 14 September  2015   Image: In this file photo take Thursday, June 19, 2014, Islamic State group militants stand with a captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 155 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File) Members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, representing the world's largest organization of experts

Press Release 5 December 2014 For immediate release Contact: Dr. Greg Stanton of Genocide Watch Warns of Crime in South Africa At a press conference at the Transvaal Agricultural Union today, Dr. Gregory Stanton, Founding President of Genocide Watch, warned that early warnings of genocide are still deep in South African society, though genocide has not begun. Dr. Stanton was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, worked

Why Empowering Women Could End Genocide and War By Dr. Gregory Stanton Founding Chairman, Genocide Watch Symposium on Women and Genocide: the Case of Darfur Washington, DC,  26 October 2014 [Full Word Document] I am a cultural anthropologist and international lawyer.  I also come from the lineage of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  Anthropologists are supposed to believe that all human behavior is cultural, that we learn everything from our cultures. 

Gregory H. Stanton Gregory H. Stanton is the President of Genocide Watch.  He is the Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution of 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, was the founder (1981)