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Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. Our purpose is to build an international movement to prevent and stop genocide.
Board of Directors
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Mr. Charles A. Pillsbury
Founding Executive Director,
Community Mediation, Inc.
Founding Executive Director,
Mediators Beyond Borders International
New Haven, CT
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Mr. Scott Fisher
U.S. Air Force (ret.)
U.S. State Department
Africa Bureau (ret.)
Arlington, VA
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Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
Founding President
Genocide Watch
Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention (ret.),
George Mason University
Washington D.C., USA
Board of Advisors
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Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire
UNAMIR Commander Rwanda,
Founder, Dallaire Initiative
Québec, Canada
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Frank R. Wolf
Former U.S. Congressman and Representative for Virginia's 10th Congressional District
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Prof. Benjamin Ferencz
Professor Emeritus of International Law,
Pace University Law School,
White Plains, NY
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Prof. Frank Chalk
Professor of History,
Concordia University
Director, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Montreal, Québec,Canada
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Dr. Elihu Richter
Associate Professor, Center for Injury Prevention,
Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health
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Dr. Samantha Power
Harvard University,
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,
Administrator, USAID
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Prof. Yehuda Bauer
Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies,
Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, Israel
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Under-Secretary-General Adama Dieng
Special Advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide (ret.)
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Prof. Eric Reeves
Professor, Smith College,
Northampton, MA
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Hon. Irwin Cotler
Chair, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights,
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Montreal, Québec
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Prof. James Waller
Cohen Endowed Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State University,
Keene, NH
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Prof. Paul Slovic
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
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Prof. John Packer
Director, Human Rights Centre, Professor of International Conflict Resolution, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Prof. Peter Balakian
Professor of the Humanities and English, Colgate University
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,
Raphael Lemkin Prize, PEN/Albrand Prize
Hamilton, NY, USA
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Prof. Robert Melson
Professor of Political Science, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN
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Ms. Linda Melvern
Author, A People Betrayed; Journalist
London, UK
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Dr. Zachary D. Kaufman
Associate Professor of Law
University of Houston
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Major General William Nash
Council on Foreign Relations, Former Commander, NATO Forces in Bosnia
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Dr. Maung Zarni
Myanmar Human Rights Advocate, Co-Founder Free Rohingya Coalition, the Global Movement to Stop the Genocide of Rohingya and other Myanmar Minorities, London, England, UK
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Prof. Israel Charny
Founding Director,
Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem,
Israel
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Dr. Charles Mironko
The Kamusi Project, Former Associate Director, The Genocide Studies Program, Yale University,
New Haven, CT
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Prof. John Roth
Professor of Religion, Claremont McKenna Colleges
Claremont, CA
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Prof. John H. Weiss
Assoc. Professor of History, Emeritus
Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
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Youk Chhang
Founding Executive Director, Documentation Center for Cambodia
2018 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Nicola Wetherall MBE
Holocaust and Genocide Educator, Royal Wootton Bassett Academy, Wiltshire, and UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, England, UK
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Dr. Susan Cook
Executive Director,
Harvard Center for African Studies
Cambridge, MA
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Prof. Hannibal Travis
Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law,
Miami, FL
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Dr. Nora E. Rowley, M.D., M.P.H.
Myanmar Human Rights Advocate for the Rohingya,
Myanmar
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Prof. Tony Stewart
Professor Emeritus, North Idaho College,
Coeur d'Alene, ID
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Prof. Brian D. Lepard
Professor of Law, University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
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Prof. Ervin Staub
Director, Ph.D. Specialization in the Psychology of Peace and the Prevention of Violence, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
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Prof. Michael Bayzler
Professor of Law,
Chapman University School of Law
Orange, CA
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Prof. Alex Hinton
Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention
Rutgers University
Newark, New Jersey
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Prof. Gregory Gordon
Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Director, LLM Program, Prosecutor in the ICTR Media Trial, Author of Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition
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Dr. Ewelina Ochab
Co-Founder, Coalition for Genocide Response, Columnist for Forbes on genocide and persecution of religious minorities
London, UK
FORMER ADVISORS
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Amb. Robert Krueger (deceased)
Former U.S. Congressman and Senator from Texas, Former U.S. Ambassador to Burundi
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Prof. Rudy Rummel (charter advisor, deceased)
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii
West O'Ahu, HI
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Prof. Eric Markusen (charter advisor, deceased)
Danish Institute for International Studies, Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Prof. Eric D. Weitz
(deceased)
Dean of Humanities and Arts, City College of New York,
New York, NY
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Prof. Colin Tatz (deceased)
Director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Shalom Institute,University of South Wales
Australia
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Prof. Stephen Feinstein (deceased)
Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN
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