TY - JOUR AU - NTAMULENGA , KABATI PY - 2021/10/10 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - LA CONVENTION DE ROME PORTANT STATUT DE LA C.P.I. A L’EPREUVE DE LA SOUVERAINTE ETATIQUE JF - IJRDO - Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research JA - jsshr VL - 6 IS - 10 SE - Articles DO - 10.53555/sshr.v6i10.4591 UR - https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/4591 SP - 01-26 AB - On 16 June 1998, the Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries was launched in Rome tonegotiate the Statute establishing the first Permanent International Criminal Court toprosecute the most serious crimes of human history, namely war crimes, crimes againsthumanity, the crime of genocide and the crime against peace or aggression. Aware that mostof these crimes are committed by States through their representatives as part of theirnational policy, it was a difficult exercise for some States which national policy is based onirredentism...., this paradigm shift against impunity should be welcome, as far as the initiativeand the organization of the aforementioned conference have improved States policiestowards the promotion of human rights.However, the conference also had its most significant challenges, the most important ofwhich was state sovereignty, which some states raised to paralyze the conventional processof creating the ICC with the required jurisdiction to prosecute mass crimes at all times and inany place, notwithstanding age, nationality, race, social standing, the official status of thesuspect responsible for mass crimes or authors of serious violations of internationalhumanitarian law and human rights.After abitter debates and negotiations, on 17 July 1998, the ICC Statute or the RomeConvention was adopted through several arrangements(compromises) cautiously or clumsilysubmiting the jurisdiction of this Court to two essential conditions: the consent of states to itsjurisdiction and the complementarity. These are a thorn in the side of the Court, which hasbeen struggling to function normally since the Statute came into force on July 1, 2002. ER -