Payam Akhavan

Still in his twenties when he prosecuted a war crimes case at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, he’s come to believe that social justice will not come through courts or politics. To change the world we must first change ourselves, if I can reduce a lifetime’s work to one glib phrase. A conversation at the New York Baha’i Center with the author of In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey. Music from Lee Dionne.