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Eric Stover

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Born: September 21 1952

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Eric Stover is Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health, University of California at Berkeley.

Stover has built the Human Rights Center into a premier interdisciplinary research and policy center that is highly regarded nationally and internationally. He is a pioneer in utilizing empirical research methods to address emerging issues in human rights and international humanitarian law.

Before coming to Berkeley in 1996, Stover served as the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights and the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on several forensic missions to investigate mass graves as an “Expert on Mission” to the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. In the early 1990s, Stover conducted the first research on the social and medical consequences of land mines in Cambodia and other post-war countries. His research helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which received the Nobel Prize in 1997. He has published six books, including The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promises of Justice in The Hague and The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions. He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Transitional Justice and Human Rights Quarterly and a board member of the Crimes of War Project.

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Eric Stover

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Books from Eric Stover

The Graves: Srebrenica And Vukovar

The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices

My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity

A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror

The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague

Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence

The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions

Witnesses from the Grave

War Crimes In The Balkans: Medicine Under Siege In The Former Yugoslavia 1991 1995

Silent Witness: Forensic DNA Evidence in Criminal Investigations and Humanitarian Disasters

Silent Witness: Forensic DNA Evidence in Criminal Investigations and Humanitarian Disasters

After the Tsunami: Human Rights of Vulnerable Populations

Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell