Ten stages of genocide

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The ten stages of genocide is an academic tool and a policy model which was created in 1987 by Gregory Stanton, American jurist, former research professor and founding president of Genocide Watch. The model characterizes how genocides occur and what are adequate preventative measures. The stages of genocide are not linear and several of them may occur simultaneously. Stanton's stages are a conceptual model based on analyses of scores of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, the Rwandan genocide, the Darfur, Myanmar, Bosnian, Bangladesh, and other genocides that reveal the common processes that lead to genocides. Stanton's model is widely used in the teaching of comparative genocide studies in a variety of settings, ranging from university courses to museum education, settings which include the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The model is based on the structuralist theories of Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky that describe the transformations...

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