Research Paper on:
Global Justice and its Relevance

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to the venue in which a crime was committed. In any event, the concept of international criminal justice is quite controversial. Issues confronting international justice today are rather daunting as  the absence of justice is often the norm as opposed to the exception in regions where armed conflicts and atrocities are seen ("Challenges," 1998). Combatants are not likely to  understand a lot about the laws concerning war and typical victims of international crime are women and children (1998). They are raped or knifed for no reason at all  (1998). This is not an uncommon situation, but one that needs to be addressed. National sovereignty does not reign when innocent lives are at stake. The severity of the  large number of killings reflect how little people understand about their neighbors and neither ones faith in technology or other aspirations can overshadow the reality of the massacres  that seem to denote the role of civilization in todays troubled world ("Challenges," 1998). The trouble seems to be that justice is not meted out in many countries that harbor  miscreants. In some instances--especially when women and children are being butchered--those in the west feel the need to step in. National justice systems are a significant first line  of defense, but they have been seen as problematic ("Challenges," 1998). In a perfect world, every war crime, or crime against humanity, as well as every act of genocide could  be prosecuted in the territory where it had been committed or by the state or nationality of the defendant, but there are significant incidents when no one is  prosecuted by ordinary domestic authorities (1998). It is when nothing is done--even if the act is not encouraged by the national policing agencies--that the world community must step in. Why?