Listen to a short interview with James Dawes Host: Chris Gondek ]
Producer: Heron & Crane
After the worst thing in the world happens, then what? What is
left to the survivors, the witnesses, those who tried to help? What
can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future,
and to stop the ones that are happening right now? "That the World
May Know" tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and
failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand
accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a
painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity
in our day.
There is no dearth of such stories to tell, and James Dawes
begins with those that emerged from the Rwandan genocide. Who, he
asks, has the right to speak for the survivors and the dead, and
how far does that right go? How are these stories used, and what
does this tell us about our collective moral future? His inquiry
takes us to a range of crises met by a broad array of human rights
and humanitarian organizations. Here we see from inside the
terrible stresses of human rights work, along with its curious
seductions, and the myriad paradoxes and quandaries it
presents.
With pathos, compassion, and a rare literary grace, this book
interweaves personal stories, intellectual and political questions,
art and aesthetics, and actual "news" to give us a compelling
picture of humanity at its conflicted best, face-to-face with
humanity at its worst.
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