Whither the International Criminal Court?
... and Tokyo Trials, as well as the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which established ‘war crimes’, ‘crimes against humanity’, and ‘genocide’ as categories of international law. The idea of a permanent international criminal court gained traction after World War II, but was sidelined due to Cold War divisions, and it took the swift unraveling of Yugoslavia and the genocide in Rwanda to bring international criminal justice to the fore once again. The ...
11.11.2016