Word: internationale
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Scheffer also warned that forming and maintaining an international court would be costly. Alluding to the $118 million spent on just the two Yugoslavian and Rwandan tribunals last year, Scheffer said a world court could possibly incur the increased costs of handling several atrocities at a time.
David J. Scheffer '75, U.S. ambassador for War Crimes Issues, expressed his hope for the establishment of a permanent international court in a speech in the Leverett House library last night.
Invited to speak by the Woodbridge Society of International Students, Scheffer laid out the conditions that favor establishing an international court. He said that since the end of the Cold War the U.S. has been able to pay more attention to the prosecution of war crimes.
The goal of the conference is to establish a permanent international court, but Scheffer cautioned that obstacles remain.
Scheffer said he sees a solution to the larger conflict between national sovereignty and the court's jurisdiction in the principle of "complementarity." According to this principle, the international court would defer to state courts if they are deemed sound by an independent prosecutor.