In Search of A Better World
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In Search of A Better World

A Human Rights Odyssey

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

In Search of A Better World

A Human Rights Odyssey

About this book

A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.

Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bahá'ís that shaped his personal life, to the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the rise of contemporary phenomena such as the Islamic State. But he also reflects on the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the reality of our inextricable interdependence to liberate us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence.

A timely, essential, and passionate work of memoir and history, In Search of a Better World is a tour de force by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer.

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INDEX

PAGE NUMBERS REFER TO PRINT EDITION
Acholiland. See Uganda
Adelabad prison, Iran, 63–64
Afghanistan: extremism as reversible, 233–234; growth of jihadists, 220–224, 234; Soviet atrocities, 226–228; world’s abandonment of, 210–214, 217. See also Taliban
Afghanistan Human Rights Commission, 225, 229–231
African Holocaust, 301
Ahmići village, Bosnia, 107–110
Akhavan, Payam: Ahmići village, Bosnia, 107–110; Arctic trips, 324–325, 331, 334–335; birth of son, 268–269; British sexual abuse inquiry, 306–307; childhood in Tehran, 6–9, 28, 54; citizenship, 42, 52; corporate lawyer, 208–210; education, 65–67, 74, 218; experience of 9/11, 205–209, 214–215, 267–268; experience of exile, 64–65, 69–70, 126; experience of immigration, 1–3, 23–28, 40–42; experience of justice work, 126–127, 147–148; experience of siege of Sarajevo, 95–104, 106; Father of, 10, 15; grandmoth...

Table of contents

  1. The Massey Lectures Series
  2. Openers
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Epigraph
  6. ONE
  7. TWO
  8. THREE
  9. FOUR
  10. FIVE
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. Index
  15. The CBC Massey Lectures Series List
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