Despite the complementary work of the SCC, hybrid tribunals provide a crucial alternative to justice where the ICC cannot exercise jurisdiction

It seems unlikely that Sudan will cooperate with the ICC, by waiving Bashir’s immunities and surrendering him to the Court.

The present state of international law is insufficient to effectively tackle terrorists.

The conflict in Yemen is one that began in 2004, but greatly escalated in the fall of 2014 when the rebel group known as the Houthis increased their attacks on the Yemeni government

The civil war in Darfur will most likely continue to escalate as the violent acts of rebel groups and an uncooperative government remain unpunished.

Almost ten years from the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) referral of the situation in Darfur, in Resolution 1593, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) the humanitarian situation in Darfur remains volatile.

There is no conclusive evidence of the Court either impeding or facilitating peace, and we must be mindful that achieving peace in conflict countries will never be easy.

The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is a rebel group that originated in northern Uganda and waged a guerrilla war against the Ugandan government for just over twenty years, under the leadership of Joseph Kony. Despite the length of the conflict, the LRA have only recently started to receive widespread international media coverage.

On Saturday 12th October, the African Union held an extraordinary session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to consider Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court. The outcome of that debate was a request from the African Union to the Security Council to defer the cases of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto

On the 6th of September, the Kenyan Parliament passed a motion to withdraw from the ICC. Kenya is the first country ever to make moves to withdraw from the court and this could have wide reaching implications, not least for Kenya.