International Law's major focus has been with Issues of War and International Conflict, foreign policy formulation and the quest for, National Interest, political relations and activities all across state borders.

Abstract

As a discipline, International Law's major focus has been with Issues of War and International Conflict, foreign policy formulation and the quest for, National Interest, political relations and activities all across state borders. Consequently, scholars of International Law see the problems of war in the international scene, how it can be prevented and how to control it when it inadvertently occurs as central. It is also a settled fact that, developments in human history usually posses two ends which are invariably associated with such developments - the positive and the negative. In this connection, an outstanding feature of the emergence of sovereignties came along with a devastating scope to warfare amongst sovereign states. Consequent. upon this, state men and diplomats have been occupied with the issues of avoiding the annihilation of mankind on the surface of the earth on the one hand, and on how to check the hardship and suffering of the human person in time of war on the other. But despite the several charters, conventions, treaties and protocol put in place to safeguard the sovereignty of the Nation- states and International Humanitarian Law, these rules have been breached in several occasions in pursuit of what leaders call "National Interest".