Ten stages of genocide
The ten stages of genocide is an academic and policy model created by Gregory Stanton, the founding president of Genocide Watch, to explain how genocide develops. The stages are not linear, and several may occur simultaneously. Stanton's stages are a conceptual model for analyzing the events and processes that lead to genocide, and for determining preventive measures. In 1996, Stanton presented a briefing paper called "The 8 Stages of Genocide" to the United States Department of State. In the paper, he suggested that genocide develops in eight stages that are "predictable but not inexorable". Though  he presented it shortly after the Rwandan genocide, it also analyzed the Holocaust, the Cambodian genocide, and other genocides. The suggested preventive measures were ones that the United States government, other national governments, or the United Nations could implement or influence other nations to implement. Stanton first conceived and published the model in the 1987 Faulds Lecture at Warren Wilson College, also presented to the American Anthropological Association in 1987. In 2012, he added two additional stages, discrimination and persecution. Stanton's model is widely used in teaching comparative genocide studies in a variety of settings, ranging from university courses  to museum education, including at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. His organization, Genocide Watch, monitors major human rights events worldwide and issues "Genocide Alerts" to policymakers, aiming to bring attention to areas of the world where genocide may occur or is occurring. Analysis. Other genocide scholars have focused on the cultural and political conditions that lead to genocide. Sociologist Helen Fein showed that pre-existing antisemitism was correlated with the percentage of Jews killed in European countries during the Holocaust. Political scientists such as Dr. Barbara Harff have identified political characteristics of states that statistically correlate with risk  of genocide: prior genocides with impunity, political upheaval, ethnic minority rule, exclusionary ideology, autocracy, closed borders, and massive violations of human rights. Stanton's model places the risk factors in Harff's analysis into a processual structure. For instance: Stanton has suggested that "ultimately, the best antidote to genocide is popular education and the development of social and cultural tolerance for diversity."