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Peace Palace, visitor center.
The permanent exhibition explains the functionning of the PCA, the ICJ, and the creation of the Peace Palace and the Peace Palace Library.
World Peace Flame monument, with stones from many countries.
Take tram 1 direction Kurhaus.
Bertha von Suttner, the first woman to receive the Peace Nobel Prize, was the spokeswoman of the international peace movement before the first World War. She participated in the first and the second The Hague Peace Conferences. During the Second conference, in 1907, she held an informal salon at the Kurhaus where she received leaders of the world and convinced them to communicate with each other, with the idea to prevent the First World War.
Take tram 1 until stop World Forum and walk to the left to the park where a nice villa can be seen from the street, only.
Villa Hejmo Nia was owned by a philantropic family that supported women’s rights and peace campaigner Aletta Jacobs. Mien von Wulfften accompanied Aletta in an informal diplomatic mission for mediation in the begining of the First World War. Aletta Jacobs and Bertha von Suttner exchanged ideas about women’s rights and the feminist cause and they respected each other, but never worked close together.
Walk back to World Forum tram station and continue to Churchillplein 1 where you’ll find Yougoslavia tribunal. It was established in 1993 and will be closed in November 2017.
The museum is part of the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. This institute is unique among research centres throughout the world in that is combines training and practical work in conflict resolution with studying the entire range of global philosophical, scientific and spiritual traditions, together with the proactive search for global responsibility, peace and justice in our time. The institute is housed in the Castle of the Muses, on the shores of Loch Goil, where it is also home to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions for Ireland & Britain and for the Middle East, the Poseidon Seminars, and the Druid Peace Order, among many other organisations and projects.
The Associazione Museo Italiano per la Pace (Association of Italian Museums for Peace) works to promote a culture of peace in schools.
The Directorate of Anfal Museum was built in 2012 as a result of the al-Anfal Campaign against the Kurdish people (and other non-Arab populations) in northern Iraq. This campaign was led by the Ba’athist Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid in the final stages of Iran-Iraq War in 1988. The Anfal campaign included the use of ground offensives, aerial bombing, systematic destruction of settlements, mass deportation, firing squads, and chemical warfare, which earned al-Majid the nickname of Chemical Ali. 4000 villages were destroyed and 182.000 people lost their lives. The campaign has been characterized as genocidal in nature.
Next week, The Hague hosts several public events commemorating Bertha von Suttner. Last year, during the Peace Palace Centenary, she was honored as the first woman with a bust in the Peace Palace. This year we commemorate her 100th death anniversary (21 June 1914) and 125 years after the publication of her famous novel Lay Down Your Arms (1889).