Crimes that fall within the jurisdiction of the court, ICC and other international organizations

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Introduction1

Significance of the Study2

Statement of the Problem2

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW3

Literature Review3

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY5

Methodology5

Research Design5

Statement of Purpose5

Data Collection Strategies6

Literature Study7

CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS8

Data Analysis process and Interpretation8

Triangulation of the Findings8

CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION& CONCLUSION10

Discussion and Conclusion10

REFERENCES11

BIBLIOGRAPHY12

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Introduction

The exercise of the jurisdiction of the ICC will report primarily to the will of States. Indeed, for the Court to intervene in a case will require its jurisdiction has been accepted either by the State in whose territory the crime was committed or the nationality of the defendant State (conditions in doctrine identify themselves as "links" jurisdictional). However, it should be noted that such acceptance of the jurisdiction of the Court may be made in two different ways to produce different effects (Cassel 2007, 49).

On the one hand, the ratification of the Statute implies automatic acceptance of the jurisdiction of the Court, so that the acts committed by nationals or in the territory of States Parties shall in all cases subject to the jurisdiction of the Court, without State the consensus necessary for each particular situation. Instead, a State may accept the jurisdiction of the Court only in relation to a specific episode, i.e., to provide ad hoc consensus yet ratified the Statute and, therefore, without acquiring statehood party (Bassiouni 2008, 34).

On the seventeenth of July 1998, concluded the work of the Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court to approve the adoption of its Statute, the next day was opened for signature in Rome Italy. According to the Statute, the Convention establishing the Court entered into force on the first of July 2002.

The purpose of that system is to establish a tribunal competent to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of serious crimes of concern to the entire international community. The opinions of scientists disagree about the criminal offenses within the jurisdiction of the court, and about kinds of criminal. As the ICC has an extensive relation with the different and with other international organizations. So, we choose subject of our study in this aspect (Danilenko 2009, 23).

Significance of the Study

The study shows that the need to examine the crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and clarification of these crimes, and discuss the crimes mentioned in the Statute of the International Criminal Court. The study is about the relationship between the ICC ...