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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...
...discussion, which was entitiled "Challenges to U.S. Policy on Atrocities: The International Criminal Court and War Crime Prosecutions," was sponsored by the law school's International Law Society...
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...
...final challenge to the functioning of the Office of War Crimes was the character of modern warfare, which is more precise and organized than ever before, but leaves governments much more vulnerable to criticism in the event of human error...