Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more about the suffering of the victim. A criminal trial is only incidentally a therapeutic or cathartic process for victims. But truth commissions, as we saw in South Africa, have the advantage of giving tens of thousands of people the opportunity to tell their stories, and not only does that contribute to healing but it also contributes to reconciliation, especially when perpetrators also come and express contrition.
When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs. - Payam Akhavan
When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.
- Payam Akhavan
Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more abou… - Payam Akhavan
Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more abou…
When I joined the UN War Crimes Tribunal, it was a realization of the dream of justice, that finally after Nuremberg, the UN is going to put the accu… - Payam Akhavan
When I joined the UN War Crimes Tribunal, it was a realization of the dream of justice, that finally after Nuremberg, the UN is going to put the accu…
Storytelling is very important. It is through context and relations that we understand the importance of human dignity. The concept means nothing as … - Payam Akhavan
Storytelling is very important. It is through context and relations that we understand the importance of human dignity. The concept means nothing as …
In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were actually standing in the way o… - Payam Akhavan
In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were actually standing in the way o…
Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are … - Payam Akhavan
Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are …
We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer f… - Payam Akhavan
We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer f…
The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefiel… - Payam Akhavan
The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefiel…
We must sacrifice something in order to make the world better. - Payam Akhavan
We must sacrifice something in order to make the world better.
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