In the Context of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) the concept of situation “denotes the confines within which the Court determines whether there is a reasonable basis to initiate an investigation”. This seemingly simple concept becomes more complex when considering that the confines of situations include “seldom well-defined events [that] stop and restart, have precursors and encounter periods of low intensity and resurgence”. In light of this, this paper constitutes an effort to elucidate how the ICC has encapsulated these nebulous events within situations as well as to explain what the current understanding of the term is and the possible challenges that this notion may face in the future. With that purpose, the paper will examine the thirteen ongoing situations at the ICC, it will address how these situations began, how they were defined, what this tells us about the current understanding of a situation and the problems and possibilities that this understanding may bring in the future.