Wondemagegn Tadesse (PhD.)Max Charley2025-03-052025-03-052024-05https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4774This study examines the nature of contemporary world conflicts, which endanger international peace and security, thereby causing the commission of international criminal offenses, such as the crime of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. Accordingly, the research will endeavor to analyze the constitutive instruments of the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC), to resolving contemporary world conflicts-; particularly, the Russo-Ukraine conflict, which erupted in February 2022. It will further examine the reform of the United Nations Security Council, and proffer recommendations to remedy the Russo-Ukraine conflict and other contemporary world conflicts. The study is conducted using the doctrinal /or dogmatic legal research, which is qualitative in nature. The doctrinal /or dogmatic legal research is employed to discuss and analyze the legal texts of the Charter of the United Nations and the Rome Statute, aimed at finding solutions to the Russo-Ukraine conflict and other contemporary world conflicts in general.en-USConstitutive instruments of the UN and the ICCresolving contemporary world conflictsThesis