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 Volume 8, Issue 10 (October 2021), Pages: 131-150

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: The role of the international criminal court in the implementation of the international humanitarian law: An applied study

 Author(s): Etesam Alabd S. Alwheebe *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Law, Collage Business Administration, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6022-9443

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.10.014

 Abstract:

This study seeks to clarify the importance of the International Criminal Court as a criminal mechanism in the application of international humanitarian law, and its effectiveness in limiting violations of this law by punishing the perpetrators of these violations as a permanent court, as well as its role in laying the foundations for international criminal justice. It has become necessary to clarify the importance of the Court and its effective role in the application of international humanitarian law, due to the presence of massive and brutal violations of human rights during armed conflicts as well as under the belligerent occupation. Previous legal studies dealt with the issue of the implementation of international humanitarian law, but it is accepted that they focused on the historical aspect of the emergence of international humanitarian law, and they focused on the theoretical aspect of the issue of mechanisms for implementing international humanitarian law more than the practical aspect and therefore did not adequately address the criminal mechanism represented in The establishment of the International Criminal Court and this is the basis on which our study is based. The previous studies lacked the application that enriches any study in this field. This is what we emphasized in our study and given the importance of the topic of the role of the International Criminal Court in the implementation of international humanitarian law and also considering the recentness of some mechanisms for the implementation of international humanitarian law, the studies that dealt with this topic remain insufficient, and many aspects of the study on this topic are still an area for research and study One of these aspects that have not been adequately researched and specifically the criminal mechanism for the implementation of international humanitarian law represented in the International Criminal Court, and this study comes to enrich the practical aspect of the implementation of international humanitarian law. 

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 Keywords: International humanitarian law, The international criminal court, International responsibility

 Article History: Received 30 April 2021, Received in revised form 21 July 2021, Accepted 17 August 2021

 Acknowledgment 

The author gratefully acknowledges the approval and the support of this research study by Grant No. BA2018-3-9-F 7807 from the Deanship of Scientific Research at Northern Border University, Arar, KSA.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Alwheebe EAS (2021). The role of the international criminal court in the implementation of the international humanitarian law: An applied study. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(10): 131-150

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