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Payam Akhavan (Persian: پیام اخوان) is a lawyer and a McGill University professor in Montreal. Akhavan was born in Tehran, Iran and moved in his childhood to Toronto, Canada because of persecution of the Baha’i religious minority before the 1979 Islamic revolution. He has since played a leading role as a pioneer of international criminal law and global justice,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reducing Genocide to Law: A Probing Reflection on Empathy and Our Faith in Global Justice )〕 is regarded as a leading scholar and practitioner of international law and human rights,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Payam Akhavan | World Economic Forum – Payam Akhavan )〕 and an important figure in the Iranian human rights movement. In 2005, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader,〔 in 2013 he was (interviewed by BBC's flagship program HardTalk ), and in 2014 he delivered the Vancouver Human Rights Lecture,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vancouver Human Rights Lecture )〕 which was broadcast on CBC Ideas. In May 2015, he appeared on (Globo Television’s Milenio ) program in Brazil. == Academic work == He is currently an Associate Professor of International Law and former Boulton Senior Fellow at McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal, Canada (2005–).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Payam Akhavan | Faculty of Law – McGill University )〕 He is also Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College at Oxford University.〔http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/Payam-Akhavan〕 He served as the first Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda at The Hague (1994–2000) and made significant contributions to its foundational jurisprudence.〔 He has also served with the UN in Bosnia, Croatia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Timor Leste. His academic appointments include: Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2013);〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fernand Braudel Fellows – European University Institute )〕 Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in Paris, France (2012);〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Payam Akhavan | Sciences Po – Ecole de Droit )〕 Senior Fellow at Yale Law School (2002–05);〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Tenth Year of Genocide Studies at Yale University )〕 Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Toronto (2002);〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Faculty – Visiting – 2002–03 | University of Toronto Faculty of Law )〕 Visiting Professor at Leiden University in The Netherlands; Research Fellow at the Danish Institute of Human Rights in Copenhagen, Denmark (1991–92), and at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law (1990–91). He earned his Bachelor of Law (LLB) (1989) from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and his Master of Law (LLM) (1990) and Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence (SJD (2001) from Harvard Law School. His doctoral thesis ''Reducing Genocide to Law: Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime'' was published by Cambridge University Press.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reducing Genocide to Law – Academic and Professional Books – Cambridge University Press )〕 This "original and daring book" is about "how jurisprudence is profoundly shaped by human emotion and the limits of language as a medium for capturing such realities" and “how we confront radical evil and suffering.”〔 It has been described as an "articulate meditation" and a “passionately written and informed volume ... based primarily upon compassion for the victims of mass violence everywhere”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reducing Genocide to Law: Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime )〕 According to the Dean of Harvard Law School: “It is rare to have in one place the legal analysis of a scholar, the honest reportage of an eye-witness to history, and the humane reflections of an introspective soul.” The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court endorsed it as “a profound re-thinking of efforts to transform global aspirations into reality” and Justice Richard Goldstone of the Constitutional Court of South Africa considered it “Necessary reading for anyone interested in the jurisprudential and philosophical development of the crime of genocide.” The relationship between emotion and reason, and the distance between the human rights "industry" and genuine empathy with victims, is a recurring theme in his scholarship. His approach is "profoundly shaped" early life experiences, including the torture and murder of his uncle Dr. Firouz Naimi in the city of Hamadan on 14 June 1981, and the hanging of his contemporary 17-year-old Mona Mahmudnizhad in the city of Shiraz on 18 June 1983, by the Islamic Republic of Iran on grounds that they belonged to the Baha’i "heresy".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harvard Law School Human Rights Journal » Making Human Rights Sexy: Authenticity in Glamorous Times )〕 He was an actor in the popular 1984 music video "Mona with the Children" by Canadian artist Doug Cameron that publicized her story around the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Doug Cameron – Mona with the Children – Bahá'Í )〕 His focus on surfacing the voices of victims shaped his Chairmanship of the Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide (2007).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide 2007 Echenberg Family Conference on Human Rights )〕 He took the unusual step of bringing together survivors of genocides in an unprecedented conversation with global leaders and a forum of young leaders from across the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=McGill – Human Rights )〕 The BBC reported that “survivors from Rwanda, Cambodia, and the Jewish Holocaust” and the "especially extraordinary" elderly Roma Gypsy Holocaust survivor Marika Nene – who came on "the first plane she had ever taken on her first journey outside Hungary" – told "their horrific stories bravely" and gave "a reality check to the experts and UN officials". Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka described the Conference “as one of those points where people meet each other in a spirit of 'egalitarian awareness'.” Together with award-winning film director Robbie Hart, he co-produced the documentary film ''Genos.Cide: The Great Challenge'' (2009) based on interviews with genocide survivors from across the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GENOS CIDE eng pt01 )〕 He also authored the "Report on the Work of the Office of the UN Special Advisor on Prevention of Genocide" (2005). Because of his innovative approaches, he has been described as "one of the most influential human rights thinkers".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=War Crime Stopper : headway )〕 He has also published numerous widely cited articles in leading journals on policy and doctrinal aspects of international criminal law. His seminal article, “Beyond Impunity: Can International Criminal Justice Prevent Future Atrocities?” in 95 American Journal of International Law 7 (2001),〔http://www.asil.org/ajil/recon2.pdf〕 cited in almost 400 publications,〔(payam akhavan – Google Scholar ). Scholar.google.com (16 December 2003).〕 was selected by the International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory as one of “the most significant published journal essays in contemporary legal studies.”〔Gerry J. Simpson (ed.), ''War Crimes Law: The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory'', Second Series, Vol. I, pp. 121–145 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2004).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Payam Akhavan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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