Payam Akhavan: 3 books
In Search of A Better World
A Human Rights Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World, the 2017 CBC Massey Lecture, is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.
In February of 2017, Amnesty International released their Annual Report for 2016 to 2017, concluding...
Reducing Genocide to Law
Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Could the prevailing view that genocide is the ultimate crime be wrong? Is it possible that it is actually on an equal footing with war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is the power of the word genocide derived from something other than jurisprudence? And why should a hierarchical abstraction assume...
by Payam Akhavan, Sohrab Behdad, Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
In this timely, informative edited volume, major Iranian scholars and civic actors address some of the most pressing questions about Iranian civil society and the process of democratization in Iran. They describe the role of Iranian civil society in the process of transition to democracy in Iran and...