The Value of the International Criminal Court

As the dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred towards the last years of the twentieth century, the world’s nations experienced an era of cooperation and unprecedented unity, leading to the creation of international organizations known as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Its purpose would be to capture criminals who had committed crimes against humanity and try them when their home nations refused to do so. Although there have been such courts in the past, the ICC would be the first of its kind to be a permanent international court. However, as all international organizations are, the courts are laden with internal disputes and disorganization from the sheer amount of people and their respective ideas present. Therefore, since the creation of the ICC, there has been a heated debate over its purpose: some argue that the ICC is integral in maintaining international relations and the protection of human rights, while others argue that the ICC is relatively incompetent in carrying out its goal, thereby wasting international resources. Although supporters may claim that the International Criminal Court has properly captured and convicted international criminals to their proper sentences, they fail to see that the court has almost no power compared to other international organizations, is too bloated with internal political disputes to work efficiently, and is a waste of international funds.
Narration
After World War II, the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials convicted Axis commanders for their crimes against humanity. However, the emergence of the Cold War quickly destroyed this international unity. Fortunately, with the disbandment of the Soviet Union, the world’s international affairs were no longer dominated by NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The international community banded together to condemn the violators of humanity during the Cold War. This effort led the United Nations, under the assistance of the United States, to create the International Criminal