ABSTRACT
Why “World Courts of Justice”? Every sovereign nation or traditional society has a court or courts of justice. But, why should the whole world have a court of justice? Well, the world of the medieval period to the modern times, of 1453 to the 1800s was a world of one society against another. It was like Thomas Hobbes’s (1588-1679) “war of all against all.” The Western European countries were engulfed in empire-building. Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc. invaded kingdoms and autonomous nations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South and North America, the Oceanic Islands, and Australasia, conquered, dominated, exploited, and expropriated them. The consequent partition of the African continent is a living testimony. In today’s world, all of those unprovoked invasions of nations would tantamount to acts of terrorism, crimes against humanity, genocide in some cases, violations of human rights, and wars of aggression, which are all violations of international criminal law (see Chapter 2).
