Dr Richard Stone (born 9 March 1937) is a British medical doctor, social and campaigner and philanthropist. Stone is best known for his association with the

Runnymede Trust The Runnymede Trust is a race equality think tank in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1968 by Jim Rose and Anthony Lester as an independent source for generating intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, ...

and the

Jewish Council for Racial Equality The Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE) is a Jewish organisation that works to provide a Jewish voice on race and asylum issues in the UK. JCORE aims to deliver race-equality education for all ages, provides action to support refugees an ...

on issues of race and politics, as well as

race and society Social interpretations of race regard the common categorizations of people into different races, often with biologist tagging of particular "racial" attributes beyond mere anatomy, as more socially and culturally determined than based upon biolog ...

more generally in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

. Stone was appointed to the panel of the

Stephen Lawrence Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; h ...

inquiry; a case involving a Black teenager who was murdered in London in 1993; which eventually led to the

Macpherson Report Stephen Lawrence (13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993) was a black British teenager from Plumstead, southeast London, who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall Road, Eltham on the evening of 22 Apr ...

, which defined the British

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's response to the incident as "

institutionally racist Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of racism that is embedded in the laws and regulations of a society or an organization. It manifests as discrimination in areas such as criminal justice, employment, housing, health ...

." Stone is also noted for his association with the Jewish interfaith group

The Woolf Institute The Woolf Institute is an academic institute in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1998 by Dr Edward Kessler MBE and the Revd Professor Martin Forward, and now located in central Cambridge on the Westminster College Site, it is dedicated to the study ...

Anti-racism and inter-faith work

Stone has worked as a political activist on issues of race and politics, as well as

in the

. He has been in the campaign arising around the

murder after sitting on the panel of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Stone served as a Cabinet Advisor to the Mayor of London, President of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, and spent five years on the

's ‘Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia’, from 2000 to 2004 as chair. He has also been a trustee and vice-Chair of the Runnymede Trust and a Council and Board member of Liberty. For 14 years he was the chair of the Islamophobia Commission, set up by the

in 1996, working with British Muslims. He was a member of the Home Office's Working Groups on Tackling Extremism Together. Much of his work has been to bring together British Jews and British Muslims. He was a founding trustee of the Maimonides Foundation in 1985 and in 2004 he founded Alif-Aleph UK (British Muslims and British Jews). He is an Honorary Fellow and Inter Faith Patron of the Woolf Institute, a Centre for Muslim-Jewish Relations at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

and a visiting fellow in the criminology department of the

University of Westminster , mottoeng = The Lord is our Strength , type = Public , established = 1838: Royal Polytechnic Institution 1891: Polytechnic-Regent Street 1970: Polytechnic of Central London 1992: University of Westminster , endowment = £5.1 million ...

Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

In the '

Inquiry' into racism in policing from 1997–99, Stone was appointed to the panel of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, which was led by Sir William Macpherson. In 2013 he published the book ''Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry'', documenting his personal experience on the Inquiry and raising concerns about the way the Inquiry was managed. In 2003/04 he sat on the panel of the NHS

David Bennett Inquiry The David Bennett Inquiry was held in the UK to look into the death of David "Rocky" Bennett on 30 October 1998 in a medium secure psychiatric unit in Norwich, after being restrained by staff. David Bennett was a 38-year-old African-Caribbean pa ...

.http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/bennett_inquiry.pdf In 2010 Stone was appointed an OBE for "public and voluntary" service.

References

External links

Richard Stone Archive

Richard Stone

Hidden Stories
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Anti-racism and inter-faith work

Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

See also

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