Wars Humanising Wars

... mechanisms. Genocide, as mentioned above, was not included into the IMT jurisprudence. However it soon became an important part of international law with the signing of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Today,... ... statutes of international criminal courts and tribunals, constituting one of the gravest (if not the gravest) international crime. World War II indisputably created (or at least substantively developed) international criminal law, and post-WWII tribunals showed ...