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6 Brown J. World Aff. 87 (1999)
Getting Aggressive about Preventing Aggression

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa6 and id is 103 raw text is: Getting Aggressive about Preventing Aggression BENJAMIN B. FERENCZ Former Nuremburg War Crimes Prosecutor ver since the judgment at Nuremberg, it has been universally binding law that aggressive war is not a national right but an international crime. The most fundamental human right is to be able to live in peace. Yet since 1945, an estimated 170 million people have been killed in armed conflicts. No one has been held criminally accountable for their deaths. It is high time for the world community to get aggressive about deterring, punishing, and suppressing aggression. Foundation Stones Over fifty years ago, the Charter for the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg created three categories of offenses punishable by the international tribunal: crimes against peace (aggression), crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Aggression was described in the IMT's judgment as the supreme interna- tional crime. It was affirmed that these crimes are not instigated or committed by abstract entities but only by people. Any individual-regardless of rank or station-responsible for planning, preparing, initiating, or waging a war of ag- gression was guilty of a crime against peace. The Charter stipulated that only those proven to be leaders, organizers, instigators, and accomplices to the crime could be convicted. Persons occupying positions of such high responsibility were deemed to possess the required intent and capacity to be held accountable under ordinary principles of international and criminal law.1 Winter/Spring 1999 - Volume V, Issue 1

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