they are all bound by the obligations of International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law. 97. In the past, retributive justice and restorative justice have been dealt with in a parallel and compartmentalized manner. However, in recent years, there seems to be a new tendency, reflected in recent progress in International Criminal Law (as of the adoption of the Statute of Rome of 1998), to stop opposing81 retributive justice (focused on the punishment of the criminal behavior) and restorative justice (threatens the situation of victims and their rehabilitation). In my understanding, retributive justice and restorative justice are not self-excluding, but instead they complement themselves. There is a convergence between the search for justice through the punishment of those responsible for violations to human rights (retributive justice) and the search for the rehabilitation of the victims of said violations (restorative justice).82 4. Law. The Integrating Hermeneutics and the Protection of the 98. This is how terrorism is fought: within the Law. Here, International Humanitarian Law meets domestic criminal law to punish those responsible for those grave violations, thus dealing with the claims for justice of the victims of terrorist acts. What is not admissible, besides being criminal, is to fight terrorism with their own weapons, turning to the State’s terrorism and thus multiplying the number of innocent and defenseless victims. The recent and notable developments in International Criminal Law also come to give a boost to these new approximations or convergences, - now between International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law. It was necessary to wait all those years for this to happen, what today is a result of the awakening of the universal juridical conscience –in my opinion the ultimate material source of all Law – to deal with an urgent need of protection of human beings in situations of armed conflicts. 99. These new approximations or convergences are now added to the other that, for years, have been the object of my reflections and studies, specifically, the approximations or convergences – at a normative, hermeneutic, and operative level – between the International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Refugee Law;83 to these three aspects of protection we must currently add contemporary . Cf., v.g., T.G. Phelps, Shattered Voices, Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, p. 30; Ch.L. Griswold, Forgiveness - A Philosophical Exploration, Cambridge, University Press, 2007, pp. 158-159. 81 . 82 As illustrated by the mechanisms of the TPI itself as a whole. . Cf. A.A. Cançado Trindade, Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, Derecho Internacional de los Refugiados y Derecho Internacional Humanitario: Aproximaciones y Convergencias, in 10 Años de la Declaración de Cartagena sobre Refugiados - Memoria del Coloquio Internacional (San José de Costa Rica, diciembre de 1994), San José, IIDH/ACNUR/Gob. Costa Rica, 1995, pp. 77-168; A.A. Cançado Trindade, Aproximaciones o Convergencias entre el Derecho Internacional Humanitario y la Protección Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, in Seminario Interamericano sobre la Protección de la Persona en Situaciones de Emergencia - Memoria (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, junio de 1995), San José de Costa Rica, CICR/ACNUR/Gob. Suiza, 1996, 83 29