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© Eric Stover
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Eric Stover is a writer who explores the nexus of war, public health, and law. As an Open Society Fellow, he evaluated whether war-crimes tribunals are serving the needs of victims of mass violence. His project examined the work of tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and East Timor, as well as the International Criminal Court in The Hague. His goal is to help tribunals, donors, and NGOs improve the quality of their interactions with victims and witnesses and to facilitate outreach to affected communities.
Stover is the faculty director of the Human Rights Center and adjunct professor of law and public health at the University of California, Berkeley. He formerly served as executive director of Physicians for Human Rights. A pioneer in utilizing empirical research methods to address emerging issues in human rights and international humanitarian law, he has written six books, including The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (University of Pennsylvania, 2005) and Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell (Ballantine, 1992).
He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Health and Human Rights, and Human Rights Quarterly and a board member of the Crimes of War Project.
