The travaux preparatoires of the crime of aggression / [edited by Stefan Barriga and Claus Kress].

Includes index.

Part I. Introduction to the Negotiation History: 1. Negotiating the amendments on the crime of aggression; 2. Negotiating the elements of the crime of aggression; 3. Negotiating the understandings on the crime of aggression; Part II. Amendments to the Rome Statute on the Crime of Aggression; Part III. Historical Documents; Part IV. Travaux Preparatoires (1995-2010); Part V. Index of Travaux Preparatoires.

The Travaux Preparatoires 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official Chairman's drafts, non-papers, country proposals, meeting reports and summary records, as well as selected unpublished materials and transcripts from the dramatic negotiations at the Review Conference.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.

The purpose of this volume, by which the Cambridge Library of the Crime of Aggression is opened, is to document the road to the Kampala compromise on the crime of aggression. This compromise includes a resolution, amendments to the Rome Statute, the corresponding amendments to the Elements of Crimes and seven interpretive understandings adopted by the States Parties to the Rome Statute. Part I of this volume contains three introductory articles written by negotiators describing the main strands of the negotiation process, beginning with the adoption of the Rome Statute, the challenges encountered, the compromises struck and the reasons underlying them. Part II contains the resolution on the crime of aggression as adopted in Kampala.