It has fostered the establishment of additional ad hoc international criminal courts with jurisdiction over such countries as Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Lebanon. It also provided impetus to the establishment of the International Criminal Court, while encouraging prosecutors in many countries to charge senior officials and guerrilla leaders for war crimes and bring them to trial in national courts.
ICTY给世界带来的影响是多方面的。它孕育了其他临时国际法庭的设立，处理卢旺达、塞拉利昂、柬埔寨和黎巴嫩等国家的事务。它还为国际刑事法庭的成立造了势，同时鼓励了许多国家以战争罪起诉高级官员和游击队领袖，把他们带到国民法庭的审判席上。