I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just what people do there. I think it's profoundly ignorant. I was astonished when Samuel Huntington wrote his famous clash of civilizations essay in response to the Yugoslavian war. I was on the streets in Sarajevo and every other person I met came from a mixed marriage. And here is Professor Huntington from Harvard writing this is a clash of civilizations. That was absurd.
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
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…
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…
There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could equally say that … - Payam Akhavan
There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could equally say that …
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…
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…
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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