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ii.The ICC and Restorative JusticeThe scholarship of victims rights as an integral part of the ICC is exemplified in the premise of the Rome Statute, which declares that the ICC was created, in part, in experience of the fact that during this century millions of children, wo custody and men have been the victims of unimaginable atrocities that deeply shock the conscience of humanity. However, the ICCs recognition of victims rights does not go towards the effectiveness of the ICC at achieving the victims goals. The ICC canisternot effectively achieve the goals of restorative justice because of (1) its determined demand for Western methods of adjudication and (2) its inherent emphasis on societal refilling as opposed to individual rehabilitation. First, the ICC places an unabated amount of pressure on the demand for a venomous prosecution in the context of a courtroom. The Preamble and name 1 of the Rome Statute sets forth an authorised restriction on power of the ICC it sha ll be complementary to national criminal jurisdictions. A case will be considered inadmissible when it is being investigated or prosecuted by a State which has jurisdiction over it or has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute The question most often posed by commentators is can non-prosecutorial measures demonstrate an intent to bring the person concerned to justice? In the trial against Congolese warlords Germain Katanga & Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, Katangas defense counsel challenged the admissibility of the case. The Trial house offers two interpretations of the word unwillingness as used in Article 17 (1) unwillingness motivated by the desire to obstruct the way o... ...avior, i.e. laws, prosecutions support societal rehabilitation by influencing the moral values of that society. much(prenominal) societal rehabilitation can inoculate the population against lapses into oppressive sort and repressive regimes. How ever, prosecutions do not attempt to rehabilitate or miscellanea the moral values of the perpetrator, or individual victims. This is primarily brought about by the challenge to balance the goal of restorative justice with the interests of efficiency and fairness. Also, the withdrawnness of the ICC may play a role in its inability to give ear as a rehabilitative function for individuals. Prosecutions at The Hague builds further distance between the conflict and those who participated in and were victims of it. The empirical weight of the ICCs geographical remoteness has been long disputed however, no conclusive determinations have been reached.