Abstract
Despite the mixed success of various ad hoc tribunals to bring to justice war criminals globally, it is the ICC in the Hague that offers the greatest promise for investigating, trying, convicting, and, through such actions, deterring war crimes and genocide internationally. The idea of creating an international court to try war crimes and crimes against humanity came in the aftermath of World War I. Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles called for the creation of a special court to try Kaiser Wilhelm II, though this idea never bore fruit. There was also talk in the 1930s of the creation of a special tribunal to deal with international crimes though nothing ever came of such suggestions.1
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Notes
William S. Schabas, An Introduction to the International Criminal Court, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 3–5.
Mahmood Mamdani, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (New York: Pantheon, 2009), pp. 193–205;
Gérard Prunier, Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide, 3rd ed. (New York: Cornell University Press, 2008), pp. 54–81;
Kofi Annan, Interventions: A life in War and Peace (New York: Penguin, 2012), pp. 120–121.
Alexis Arieff, Rhoda Margesson, Marjorie Ann Browne, and Matthew C. Weed, International Criminal Court Cases in Africa: Status and Policy Issues (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2011), pp. 14, 16–17
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Crowe, D.M. (2014). Epilogue: The ICC. In: War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137037015_11
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