Posted
on August 28, 2015
Did
you know that, on this date in 1913, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
opened a Peace Palace in The Hague? (The Hague is the
seat of government in the Netherlands.)
The
Peace Palace is considered by many to be the seat of international
law, because it houses the International Court of Justice. This is
the main court of the United Nations. The Peace Palace also houses
the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague Academy of
International Law, and a large international law library.
Unfortunately,
less than a year after opening the Peace Palace, Europe became
embroiled in World War I...to be followed not so long after by World
War II!
Still,
the striving for peace continues. Fifty years to the day after the
Peace Palace was opened, Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a
speech urging peaceful protest for civil rights, and psychologist and
linguist Steven Pinker has documented the fact that violence
and war are decreasing and have drastically decreased. Believe it or
not, we are living in the most peaceful time in humanity's existence!
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