If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Human rights lawyer and diplomat David Scheffer provides new insights into the continuing struggle for international justice. His book "All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals" details the international gamble to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. As senior adviser to Madeleine Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, David Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court. Scheffer currently teaches at the Northwestern University School of Law, where he directs the Center for International Human Rights. The World Beyond the Headlines is a project of the Center for International Studies, which brings scholars, journalists, and world leaders to the University to discuss issues of current global importance. For more information on this event, visit cis.uchicago.edu/events/2011-2012/120112-david-scheffer-history-of-the-war-crime-tribunals Information on the entire The World Beyond the Headlines series can be found at cis.uchicago.edu/wbh This program was organized by the University of Chicago Center for International Studies and co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Society, the Human Rights Program, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. January 12, 2012

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