![]() He chaired and co-wrote the influential Bar Human Rights report to the Parliamentary Inquiry into FGM, has briefed and written reports for the UN around gender-based violence, and works pro bono internationally with survivors of modern day slavery, human trafficking, and Violence Against Women and Girls. It provides a new understanding of who we are-and who we can be.Ībout the Author: Dexter Dias is a human rights lawyer, part-time Crown Court judge, and visiting researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard. ![]() Mixing cutting-edge neuroscience, social psychology, and human rights research, The Ten Types of Human is at once a provocation and a map to our hidden selves. It begins in a courtroom and journeys across four continents and through the lives of some exceptional people, in search of answers. It explores the frontiers of the human experience, excavating the forces that shape our thoughts and actions in extreme situations. As a human rights lawyer and judge who has presided over some of the worlds most notorious abuse cases, he has come up with ten human types more specifically ten types of human behaviour in response to child slavery, genocide, terror, racism, prostitution, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, natural disaster, and even fate. This pioneering examination of human nature looks at the best and worst that human beings are capable of, and asks why. But how can we be sure? What are our limits? Do we have limits? The answer lies with the Ten Types of Human: the people we become when we are faced with life's most difficult decisions. We want to believe that there are others we always would. ![]() ![]() We want to believe that there are some things we would never do. ![]()
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