The Travaux Préparatoires of the Crime of Aggression

Travaux Préparatoires of the 2010 amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the crime of aggression.

This unique collection of documents spans fifteen years of negotiations on the crime of aggression and includes unpublished materials and unofficial transcripts that put the historic breakthrough at the 2010 Kampala Review Conference of the International Criminal Court into context. Introductory articles and select historic documents are also included.The Travaux Préparatoires of the Crime of Aggression contains a complete documentation of the fifteen years of negotiations which led up to the historic adoption of the amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court at the 2010 Review Conference in Kampala. Arranged chronologically, it includes all relevant official Chairman's drafts, non-papers, country proposals, meeting reports and summary records, as well as selected unpublished materials and transcripts from the dramatic negotiations at the Review Conference. Three introductory articles, each written from the perspective of an insider, put the Kampala compromise into context and explore the amendments on the crime of aggression, their negotiation history and the intentions of the drafters.