Elements of universal jurisdiction in criminal matters: Rome statute (1998) and domestic law in the Colombian case

Abstract

The process of defining competences for the repression of serious attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law, has been the product of multiple events. It impacted the decisions of the international community and caused a modification to the legal orientation of the nations. It can be said that this process has been the result of the globalization of world activity, a principle that a few decades ago could not have anticipated the evolution that this concept under study will inevitably have. This article analyzes the elements of universal jurisdiction that are linked to the Rome Statute, which compelled us today to react and change our main notions on international justice. The text has been developed using a qualitative method of a hermeneutic, comparative and teleological nature. It uses methodological instruments of a historical, reflective, descriptive and propositional, argumentative type.