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Beyond Payam Akhavan's impressive professional and academic distinctions as a former UN prosecutor lies a deep and enduring dedication to the pursuit of justice on the international stage. In Search of a Better World is a revelation of the some of the darkest moments of the world's recent history and a vital and enduring odyssey of hope for the future. An essential work on the human rights struggles of our times. -- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran With precision and sensitivity, as well as brutal honesty, Payam Akhavan's In Search of a Better World highlights the complexity of modern conflict and the necessary solutions for our future. It is heartening to see essential tools (such as the Will to Intervene) being offered up in practical and meaningful ways, when so many have turned their back on them, and so, on our responsibilities as global citizens. -- Lieutenant-General Romeo A. Dallaire Payam Akhavan has produced a remarkable work -- a unique combination of fascinating biography, moving descriptions of human suffering inflicted by malicious war criminals, and recognition of the resilience, courage, and dignity of so many of the victims. This book will be appreciated by all who understand and reject the evils of irrational discrimination and applaud the efforts of those determined to end it. -- Justice Richard J. Goldstone, retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and first Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda [Akhavan's] standing as the 2017 Massey Lecturer [is] not only deserved but overdue. The lecture's companion book, In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey is more than a treatise on rights: it's also effectively an autobiography, showing how a crusade with global implications had its roots in personal experience. -- Montreal Gazette Such an illustrious career, played out against the backdrop of some of humanity's darkest moments, makes for a revelatory, heartbreaking, and often challenging narrative. -- Quill & Quire

Beyond Payam Akhavan's impressive professional and academic distinctions as a former UN prosecutor lies a deep and enduring dedication to the pursuit of justice on the international stage. In Search of a Better World is a revelation of the some of the darkest moments of the world's recent history and a vital and enduring odyssey of hope for the future. An essential work on the human rights struggles of our times. -- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran With precision and sensitivity, as well as brutal honesty, Payam Akhavan's In Search of a Better World highlights the complexity of modern conflict and the necessary solutions for our future. It is heartening to see essential tools (such as the Will to Intervene) being offered up in practical and meaningful ways, when so many have turned their back on them, and so, on our responsibilities as global citizens. -- Lieutenant-General Romeo A. Dallaire Payam Akhavan has produced a remarkable work -- a unique combination of fascinating biography, moving descriptions of human suffering inflicted by malicious war criminals, and recognition of the resilience, courage, and dignity of so many of the victims. This book will be appreciated by all who understand and reject the evils of irrational discrimination and applaud the efforts of those determined to end it. -- Justice Richard J. Goldstone, retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and first Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda [Akhavan's] standing as the 2017 Massey Lecturer [is] not only deserved but overdue. The lecture's companion book, In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey is more than a treatise on rights: it's also effectively an autobiography, showing how a crusade with global implications had its roots in personal experience. -- Montreal Gazette Such an illustrious career, played out against the backdrop of some of humanity's darkest moments, makes for a revelatory, heartbreaking, and often challenging narrative. -- Quill & Quire

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PAYAM AKHAVAN is a Professor of International Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, a Member of the International Court of Arbitration, and a former UN prosecutor at The Hague. He has served with the UN in conflict zones around the world, including Bosnia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Timor Leste, and as legal counsel in landmark cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Courts of Canada and the United States. His prior academic appointments were at Oxford University, University of Paris, the European University Institute, University of Toronto, and Yale Law School. He earned his Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, and his widely cited academic publications include Reducing Genocide to Law from Cambridge University Press. He served as Chair of the Global Conference on Prevention of Genocide, is a Founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, and his groundbreaking human rights work has been featured on BBC World’s Hardtalk, CBC Ideas, Maclean’s magazine, Brazil’s TV Globo, and the New York Times. In 2005, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Payam Akhavan was born in Tehran, Iran, and migrated to Canada with his family in his childhood.

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