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EDUCATING FOR PEACE AT HARVARD

With members of the class and faculty at Harvard's  Kennedy School.  I'm in the front row left, standing.  Dr. Kathryn Sikkink  (seated just to  my right)  and  Dr. Luis Moreno Ocampo  (standing, front row,  4th from right).   It was my honor this past week to accept an invitation to visit Harvard University. More specifically, I visited Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School and its Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, both of which are teaching programs and doing research that coincide with areas of investigation included in my latest book, War: A Crime Against Humanity. These areas include ways to reform and improve the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC), as a means of making them more effective in establishing and maintaining world peace; strategies to bolster and protect the rule of law, democratic values, and human and civil rights; tactics for preventing torture and methods for imparting peace education. In other words, through these