In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey (Massey Lectures)

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A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World is a powerful and very important work at the major human rights struggles of our times.

Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the awful realities of up to date genocide all over his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given upward push 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 upward thrust of up to date phenomena such as the Islamic State. But he also reflects at the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the truth of our inextricable interdependence to disencumber us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence.

A timely, very important, and passionate work of memoir and history, In Search of a Better World is a tour de force by an the world over renowned human rights lawyer.

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