Gregory H. Stanton

Biography

Gregory H. Stanton earned degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Law School, and a Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Before coming to Washington and Lee, he served as a voting rights worker in Mississippi during the 1960s, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast, and as a CARE Field Director in Cambodia. Besides Washington and Lee, Stanton has taught law at American University and the University of Swaziland and history at the University of Mary Washington.

Prior to 1992, he served as a legal advisor to the Ukrainian independence movement and was Chair of the Committee on Human Rights of the American Bar Association's Young Lawyer's Division. From 1992 to 1999 he served in the State Department. During his years there, Stanton authored the U.N. Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry, and the Central African Arms Flow Commission. Also for the U.N., Stanton drafted the resolutions that established peacekeeping operations for Mozambique, which helped end that nation's bloody civil war. He was awarded the prestigeous W. Averell Harriman award of the American Foreign Service Association in 1994.

In 1999, Stanton left the State Department and founded Genocide Watch. He later drafted rules of evidence and procedure for the trials of Khmer Rouge figures in Cambodia. He has also been associated with the International Criminal Court.