ICC

What is the ICC and its mandate

Mandates

War crimes

Crimes agaisnt humanity

And cerimes of unlawful military forve

Conditions for ICC

Country had to sign the rome statue

Domestic legal system is not prosecuting

ICC relies on the state which makes it ineffective

What is the origin of the ICC

Hinduism- crime to wage war for offensive reasons

crime for spreading relgion

crime before conflict resolutions are met

must notify oppenent of wat

cannot wage war at night or in a garden'

no poinous methods of war

no attacking people who are defenseless

19 th century

gustav moyner proposed this idea but he was ingnored due to many factors and him being the first of his kind

20th century

Post WW1- Treaty of Versaille btu prosecution was largely unsuccessful

Nuremburg - first successful international trial’

Yugoslavia and people wanted a permanent court after that