Essay on the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established by the Rome Statute adopted by the conference on July 17, 1998. The Treaty entered into force in July 2002, when the ICC started to build its staff and now the first processes are yet to begin. Even though the treaty was signed by so many countries that made the ICC a truly international body, exactly the treaty itself is also the ground of the greatest controversies of the ICC, becoming the reason why the ICC can’t become a fully universal body. The Rome Statute is not only the outline of the self-evidently good idea of the ICC, but also a document that is claimed to be vague, crude and full of weaknesses, dividing international society in two parts- supporters and critics of the ICC. However, when one takes a careful look at the arguments about the Rome Statute and the ICC, it is so that weaknesses do not outweigh any- the good idea or realistic benefits of the ICC. Critics of the ICC may argue how wage the Statute is and how bad the ICC will be functioning hence, etc. but still the ICC is worth more than that- it is a turning point in history of justice as the ICC is the first judicial body of that range, as the individuals are going to be finally paying for their terrible crimes against other human beings, which makes the ICC not only fine, but really necessary. World and people do need the ICC even if there are several important debates over it, which are going to be explained and argued further on. …