بحثاً عن عالم أفضل رحلة في عالم حقوق الإنسان

A memoir, history and call to action, the Massey Lectures by renowned UN prosecutor and international scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our time. Renowned UN prosecutor and international scholar Payam Akhavan has confronted the harsh realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that delusions, political pessimism, and general apathy have led to gross human rights violations: from the religious persecution of Iranian Baha'is that affected his personal lives, through the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia and the genocide in Rwanda, to the emergence of contemporary phenomena such as the Islamic State. But it also reflects on the resilience of the inspiring human spirit, and on the fact that we are inextricably linked to liberate ourselves, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others, or from a hollow consumer culture that sanctifies greed and self-indulgence. In Search of a Better World is a timely historical and memoir, an essential and influential work, and a landmark achievement for a world-renowned human rights lawyer.