Eric Stover, Director, Human Rights Center, Institute of International Studies University of California, Berkeley and Member of the Board of Directors, Crimes of War Project

Previously the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Mr. Stover has served on several medico-legal investigations as an "Expert on Mission" to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. In March and April 1995, he conducted a survey of mass graves throughout Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In June 1984, Mr. Stover testified for the prosecution at the trial of leaders of the military junta which ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1986. In the early 1990s, Mr. Stover and British deminer Rae McGrath undertook research on the social and medical consequences of land mines in Cambodia and other developing countries. Mr. Stover is author of numerous books, reports, and articles on medicine and human rights, including, The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (with photographer Gilles Peress), Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell, The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions, Medicine Under Siege in the former Yugoslavia, and Landmines: A Deadly Legacy.

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