Peace Palace
| Peace Palace | |
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| Dutch: Vredespaleis | |
The Peace Palace, pictured in March 2006
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Neo-Renaissance |
| Town or city | The Hague |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Coordinates | 52°05′12″N 4°17′44″E / 52.0866°N 4.2955°E |
| Current tenants | Permanent Court of Arbitration and International Court of Justice |
| Groundbreaking | 1907 |
| Opened | 28 August 1913 |
| Cost | US$1.5 million ($40,000,000, adjusted for inflation) |
| Owner | Carnegie Foundation (Netherlands) |
| Affiliation | United Nations |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Louis M. Cordonnier |
| Awards and prizes | European Heritage Label |
| Website | |
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The Peace Palace (Dutch: Vredespaleis; pronounced [ˈvreːdəspaˌlɛis]) is an international law administrative building in The Hague, the Netherlands. It houses the International Court of Justice (which is the principal judicial body of the United Nations), the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague Academy of International Law and the Peace Palace Library. The Palace officially opened on 28 August 1913, and was originally built to provide a home for the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a court created to end war by the Hague Convention of 1899. Andrew Dickson White, whose efforts were instrumental in creating the court, secured from his friend American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie US$1.5 million ($40,000,000, adjusted for inflation) to build the Peace Palace.
The European Heritage Label was awarded to the Peace Palace on 8 April 2014.
The Peace Palace has been occupied at different times by a number of organisations:
Other international courts in The Hague, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court are separate organizations, located elsewhere in The Hague.
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