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This paper provides the text of a speech delivered by Carla Del Ponte, Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), at the London School of Economics and Political Science in October 2003. The speaker discusses the role and importance of the ICTY as an institution of international law. She concludes that the unique contribution of international justice to the reconstruction of divided societies is the removal of high-level war criminals, so that their influence cannot continue in the post-conflict arrangements.