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...David Scheffer, Ambassador at Large to United States war crimes policy and head of the U.S. delegation to the International Criminal Court negotiations, spoke at the Harvard Law School late last night...
Ambassador Scheffer described his office of war crimes policy as "atrocities central," and a department accustomed to grimness...
...Scheffer said the challenges faced by the war crimes office included the ongoing tension between peace and justice, the desire of governments to avoid outside interference in their affairs and the absence of a permanent international criminal court...
While there is a lot of enthusiasm for a permanent international criminal court, Scheffer focused heavily on the need to regulate criminal activity in the present, in addition to working to create such a court...
There are plenty of current cases to deal with, Scheffer said, citing such examples as the 1980's activities of Sadaam Hussein and the ongoing conflict in Chechnya...