In this episode, our research fellow Ms. WANG Lin will host Professor Williams Schabas, a regular guest of Global Governance Perspective, to talk about the latest development of the ICC investigation in situation of Ukraine. On the surface, the ICC appears to be undergoing a "renaissance" of sensitivity and operational capacity. However, against the backdrop of the ICC's failure to make progress for years in its investigations of situations in Iraq, Afghanistan, targeting NATO countries including the United States, Britain and Australia, and as well the sanctions imposed directly on the ICC by the United States to stop its investigations, if the ICC were to conduct war crimes trials against Russia in a very short period of time, could this be considered a "success story" for the court? How can the rapid response and convergence of resources demonstrated in this case be evaluated in comparison to the ICC's performance in other situations such as the above-mentioned investigations against the U.S., Britain, and Australia? If the ICC does succeed in finding war crimes in this conflict, will this really give the ICC more confidence and credit? Would such a success raise suspicions that the ICC is being politicized and instrumentalized? Background Music: Behind the sword - Alexander Nakarada Editor: Sira Gong