Greg Stanton, James Farmer professor in human rights at the University of Mary Washington, will be featured on the radio program “With Good Reason” as part of Escape to Hotel Rwanda Week, November 24-30. Dr. Stanton will discuss the eight stages that lead to genocide, including the first stage, where people are labeled by race, ethnicity, religion or nationality.
The show will air Saturday, November 24 at 1 p.m. on WCVE 88.9, Sunday, November 25 at midnight on WAMU 88.5, Tuesday, November 27 on WGMU 650 AM and online at www.withgoodreason.org.
Dr. Stanton founded Genocide Watch in 1999 and has served as the organization’s president. He also worked in the U.S. Department of State, where he drafted the United Nations Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In 1994 Dr. Stanton won the American Foreign Service Association’s prestigious W. Averell Harriman Award for “extraordinary contributions to the practice of diplomacy exemplifying intellectual courage,” based on his dissent from U.S. policy on the Rwandan genocide.
Since the 1960s, when he was a voting rights worker in Mississippi, Dr. Stanton has been actively involved in human rights. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast and as the field director of Church World Service/CARE in Cambodia in 1980. He has been a law professor at Washington and Lee and American universities and the University of Swaziland.
Dr. Stanton has degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Law School and a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
“With Good Reason” is the only statewide public radio program in Virginia. It hosts scholars from Virginia’s public colleges and universities who discuss the latest in research, pressing social issues and the curious and whimsical. Now celebrating its fifteenth year, “With Good Reason” is produced for the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is broadcast in partnership with public radio stations in Virginia and Washington, D.C.