Stanton's stages are a conceptual model with no real-world sampling for analyzing the events and processes that lead to genocides, and they are also a model for determining preventative measures. The stages of genocide are not linear, and as a result, several of them may occur simultaneously. The ten stages of genocide, formerly the eight stages of genocide, is an academic tool and a policy model which was created by Gregory Stanton, the founding president of Genocide Watch, in order to explain how genocides occur. Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War.Academic model explaining how genocides occur Part of a series on
