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Reversing the Rivers - A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights (Hardcover)
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Reversing the Rivers - A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights (Hardcover)
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International
USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of
the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in
Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan; controversies over the prison camp at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the use of torture by the United States
after 9/11; as well as growing concern about inequities in the
American justice system, from police misconduct to the death
penalty. Drawing upon his encounters with tyrants, the inspiration
of brave human rights heroes, and collaborations with celebrities
ranging from Patrick Stewart to Salma Hayek, Schulz uses poignant
narrative and amusing anecdotes to discuss the day-to-day realities
of struggling with life-and-death human rights crises. In the
process he ducks an assassination threat in Liberia; brings tears
to the eyes of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; and bests
America's self-described "toughest sheriff" on Bill Maher's
Politically Incorrect. Full of reflection as well as action,
Reversing the Rivers provides Schulz with the opportunity to
address profound philosophical questions, such as "What is the
nature of evil?"; "How do we foster the 'better angels of our
nature'?" "When may we use force to stop people from using force?"
"Is the prohibition on torture as simple as it seems?" and "What's
wrong with an eye for an eye?" Most important, in an eloquent
concluding chapter, he answers the quandary most frequently posed
to him during his years at Amnesty, "Given all the horrors in the
world you see day after day, how do you retain any hope at all in
humanity?"
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