The Stories Behind the Statistics
Each case study follows one stage of Gregory Stanton’s framework through the people who lived it — eyewitnesses, survivors, bystanders, and rescuers — using testimony, archival documents, and historical materials.
Each stage is a long-form article, paired with a narrated audio version. Classroom units are published stage by stage.
Listen
Every case study, narrated.
Seven episodes, 29 to 49 minutes each, built around unedited testimony, transcripts, and speeches. Free, on Apple Podcasts and Audible.
Teach
Classroom-ready units.
Downloadable lesson plans, discussion guides, and age-appropriate anchor texts, with teacher support for emotionally difficult material. Free, no sign-up.
Getting Started
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Read
Each case study unpacks one stage, combining literary nonfiction with scholarly rigor.
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Listen
Articles are paired with narrated audio, built around unedited testimony and speeches.
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Teach
Downloadable units, discussion guides, and age-appropriate anchor texts. Three published so far.
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Act
Every piece ends with specific steps — civic, personal, and possible right now.
“Genocide is a process that develops in ten stages that are predictable but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The process is not linear. Stages occur simultaneously. Each stage is itself a process.”
Gregory Stanton · Ten Stages of Genocide
The Series
Eight stages published so far, in order. Start anywhere.
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From ‘Us’ to ‘Them’: Classification in Darfur
Exploring the first stage of genocide, classification, this initial installment features the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, highlighting harrowing…
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Threads of Resistance: Symbolization in the Cambodian Genocide
The second stage of genocide, Symbolization, is analyzed within the context of Cambodia. The impact of the Khmer…
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In Darkness and Separation: Women, the Hazara, and Discrimination in Afghanistan
The Hazara face relentless, systematic attacks under Taliban rule. Women’s rights regress to repression and silence.
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“Like Moths to a Flame”: Dehumanization in the Rwandan Genocide
An in-depth analysis of the fourth stage of genocide, dehumanization, focusing on the Rwandan genocide as a case…
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The Architecture of Annihilation: Organized Genocide in Myanmar
The fifth stage, organization, seen through the machinery of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Eyewitness testimony in this…
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Splintered Lines: Polarization and Division in the Bosnian Genocide
‘My youngest boy… those little hands. I imagine them picking strawberries, holding books, going to school. Every morning…
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Before Dawn, By Design: Preparation and Process in the Holocaust
The seventh stage of genocide, preparation, is explored through the lens of the Holocaust, and specifically the Einsatzgruppen…
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Human Quotas: Persecution and Consumption in the Genocide of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs
The article discusses the genocide and human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, detailing systemic violence, forced labor,…
Denial starts with what people believe
Students grew up with every answer a click away, and without much training in telling good information from bad. Over the same period, antisemitism, conspiracy theories, Holocaust distortion, and denial have all risen — along with false equivalence and the trivialization of genocide.
