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However, the importance of inquiry as a principal tool for managing a meaningful number of international crises gradually decreased over a large period. Following World War I and subsequently following World War II, the international community dramatically shifted its focus toward employing legal and judicial mechanisms, such as the Nuremberg Tribunals, to decisively address exceptionally large-scale atrocities. The United Nations' developing architecture considerably strengthened its focus on binding resolutions, thorough collective security arrangements and strong legal prosecutions, rather than relying on non-binding inquiries. The horrors of worldwide war drove several states to search for at least five more stringent remedies and no fewer than three clearer legal prohibitions against aggression, as shown by the postwar reconsideration of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Hague Conventions. Frequently, institutions possessing important enforcement capabilities, for example, international criminal courts, increasingly eclipsed inquiries. These bodies offered at least several more concrete outcomes, both retributive as well as deterrent, compared to inquiries, which often possessed only moral authority.