One big lesson I learned during the struggle to create the International Criminal Court (ICC), and now during the battle for a moratorium on the death penalty, is that it is often better to aim for a realistic result rather than a perfect one. Before the international community established the ICC, there were two ad hoc tribunals – one for the former Yugoslavia and one for Rwanda. Their work paved the way for the ICC.
我在建立国际刑事法庭以及现在暂停死刑的奋斗中所学到的一大的教训就是，很多时候退而求其次往往要好一点。国际社会建立国际刑事法庭之前有两个临时法庭，一个用于前南斯拉夫，另一个用于卢旺达。这两个法庭的工作为国际刑事法庭铺平了道路。