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18991899 onward; war-crimes tribunals from 1993 · The Hague

The Hague and international justice

The Peace Palace in The Hague, red-brick seat of the world court, with its clock tower and lawn
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The peace conferences of 1899 and 1907 made The Hague a seat of international law, and Andrew Carnegie paid for the Peace Palace, opened in 1913 and now home to the UN's International Court of Justice. In 1993 the UN set up its tribunal for the former Yugoslavia here, which tried Slobodan Milošević, and in 2002 the permanent International Criminal Court followed, making the city the centre of war-crimes justice.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Peace Palace and visitor centreThe palace of the world court, with a free visitor centre and occasional tours.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: International Criminal CourtThe court's headquarters in the dunes, with public galleries for hearings.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: Former Yugoslavia tribunal building, ChurchillpleinWhere the ICTY held its trials, now used by its successor mechanism.Map ↗

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