The signing of a peace agreement between the State and the FARC will open the door to the transitional road to peace. To complete the transition successfully it will require an ad hoc legal structure that can accommodate the demands of the FARC for demobilizing its members.

Due to the structure of the International Court of Justice it is unlikely that any case will be brought before it as both states would need to award the Court jurisdiction over the matter.

With the situation in the Middle East already volatile, the must Prosecutor take this into account when deciding whether to go ahead with an investigation.

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.

Around Central Africa rebel militia groups are trading wildlife for supplies to fuel their illegal activities. Wildlife poaching is of huge national and international concern as the current rate of poaching is placing African elephants at a risk of extinction within the next ten years.

The legal classification of cross-border armed conflicts between State and non-State parties has become increasingly complex as such conflicts do not fit into the neat typology of international armed conflict (IAC) or non-international armed conflict (NIAC).

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) faces major challenges in its decision to turn against members of its former advocate and the subsequent lack of cooperation from the RPF, would turn out to be a major obstacle for Rwanda's reconciliation process in the years to come.

Twenty years ago, in April 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections after forty years of apartheid. Decades of segregation, injustice and suppression came to an end as the rainbow nation was born under the leadership of Nelson Mandela. South Africa was set on the right path, but equal rights were merely the foundation - not a guarantor - for equal economic opportunities.

Since February this year, Venezuela has been in an extreme state of upheaval. Even for a country like Venezuela with extreme polarization and lively political debate, riots of this magnitude are uncommon. What started as a demonstration by a group of students in the south-west of the country claiming for more security at universities, has transformed into the worst political violence the country has experienced in more than twenty years.