"With rumours that long overdue arms control legislation will once again be missing from the new parliamentary timetable, the establishment of the ICC would go some way to making the ethicaldimension a reality, " he said.
The next step, Pearce believes, is to add an ethicaldimension to the struggle by highlighting the fact that those intitially affected will be almost entirely located in the developing world where infrastructure and resources are already at their most over-stretched.