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Eric Stover

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

Eric Stover is Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. Stover is a pioneer in utilizing empirical research methods to address emerging issues in human rights and international humanitarian law.

He has 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 also 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.

His research helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which received the Nobel Prize in 1997. His books include 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.