Richard Stone (anti-racism activist)

Dr Richard Stone OBE (born 9 March 1937) is a British medical doctor and anti-racism activist.

Anti-racism and inter-faith work

Stone has worked as an anti-racism and inter-faith campaigner in the UK. He has been in the campaign arising around the Stephen Lawrence murder and is a friend, adviser and confidant of Doreen Lawrence on a continuing basis. Dr 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 Runnymede Trust'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.^[1] For 14 years he has been the chair of the Islamophobia Commission, set up by the Runnymede Trust in 1996, working with British Muslims.^[2]

He was a member of the Home Office’s Working Groups on Tackling Extremism Together.^[3]

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).^[4]

He is an Honorary Fellow and Inter Faith Patron of the Woolf Institute, a Centre for Muslim-Jewish Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow in the criminology department of the University of Westminster.^[5]

Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

In the 'Stephen Lawrence Inquiry' into racism in policing from 1997–99, Stone acted as adviser to the judge, Sir William Macpherson.^[6][7] In 2013 he published the book Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry,^[8] 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.^[9]

In 2010 Stone was awarded an OBE for "public and voluntary" service.^[10]

References

External links

• http://richardstonesli.wordpress.com/
• http://hiddenstories.co.uk/