International Criminal Court in mid-19th C ?

When I did some research on the ICRC last wk, there was 1 reference to how, during the inception of the 1st Geneva Convention in 1864, Gustave Moynier IIRC had proposed even back then, a permanent intl crim ct to prosecure the most egregious violations of the laws & customs of war, together with what would become known as crimes against humanity. Of course, by 1948, the idea had been resurrected with the Nuremberg trials in the aftermath of the carnage of WWII & the Final Solution, with there even being a provision in the 1948 Genocide Convention (Art. 6) for a permanent intl ct to try crimes of geocide. Would the notion of creating such an over-arching intl body back then have been totally ASB ?
 
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