Eric Stover, faculty director of the Human Rights Center

Eric Stover is the faculty director of the Human Rights Center and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health and at Berkeley Law. In the early 1990s he conducted the first research on the social and medical consequences of land mines in Cambodia and other postwar countries and was a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996. He has conducted human-rights investigations in numerous countries, including Argentina, Rwanda, Cambodia, South Africa, and the former Yugoslavia, as well as the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo. He is the author of numerous books, reports, and articles on medicine and human rights, including The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (with photographer Gilles Peress) and The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague. Stover was in northern Iraq during the U.S. invasion in March and April 2003, monitoring compliance with the Geneva Conventions for Human Rights Watch, and returned there in February 2004.