The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court to consider the crime of aggression in light of the Kampala amendments

Abstract

The Kampala Review Conference was held in the year 2010, to discuss the proposed amendments to the statute of the permanent international criminal court regarding the exercise of its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, during which a definition of the crime of aggression was adopted based on the definition contained in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. [3341/1974], and was identified Four pillars of the crime of aggression are the international, legal, physical and moral pillars. The court, in accordance with the amendments, may exercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression either by referral by states, by the Security Council, or by the Public Prosecutor of the Criminal Court after the approval of the head of the Pre-Trial Division and provided that the Security Council does not issue within a period of six months after being informed of the case a decision that the situation is not aggression, and has been determined The temporal scope and the spatial scope of exercising this jurisdiction, all in an attempt to activate the work of the criminal court and its role in examining crimes of aggression