The first significant experience of an international court, albeit military and non-civilian, is that of the Nuremberg Court for crimes committed by the Nazis, made up of the winning powers of the Second World War. A similar court was established for the same purposes in Tokyo.
However, it is with the 1990s - and with the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda - that the work of international justice intensifies, in a path that will lead to the creation of the International Criminal Court.