About us

Hague Project Peace and Justice is an independent network supported by 180 Hague-based international organisations, knowledge institutions, civil society groups and companies that work towards a peaceful, just and secure world. The project is a joint initiative by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International city of The Hague to consolidate the Hague’s reputation abroad as the global Center of Excellence for Peace and Justice.

Combining knowledge and experiences

“Peace and Justice” are taken to stand for expertise, knowledge and experience in the fields of national and international legal order. This includes building up national legal order in fragile states, so as to avert conflict and instead, to promote peace. The world is becoming increasingly international. More and more actors are involved and they are increasingly interdependent. Hence, there is a growing need for rules governing their interaction. In order to conceive these rules, expertise in the fields of national and international legal order is needed, as well as an authoritative source of knowledge on Peace and Justice including security issues.

Dialogues

The effectiveness of this program is based on engaging dialogues on different perspectives of peace and justice with a view to listening and exchanging knowledge and ideas. The result of this approach will contribute to a balanced view of decision-makers and influencers about peace and justice conflicts and resolutions. And setting peace and justice in motion.

Numerous stakeholders

The Hague project Peace and Justice project is a multi-stakeholder platform. Among them are the International Tribunals and Courts in The Hague and other IGO’s, NGOs specialized in peace and justice issues, knowledge institutions, journalists and the Dutch government as represented by its various departments at national and local levels. These stakeholders are playing a major role as interlocutors, content sources and advocates in rolling out Peace & Justice activities. One of the project’s goals is to discover and develop synergies between the international organizations, knowledge institutions, NGO’s and the private sector hosted in the Hague. Although each organization has distinct objectives of its own, its interest in the project is based on a common necessity for trust in the rule of law and the international reputation of The Hague.

Instruments will include a practical toolkit, outgoing visits by dignitaries from The Hague who are knowledgeable on peace and justice related issues, incoming visits by “high potentials”, “influentials” en journalists, online and offline public dialogue (HagueTalks.com) to connect local conversations to experts in the Hague, courses and workshops about international justice, Peace & Justice missions, as well as the use of social media.

Partners

The Hague Project Peace and Justice is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International city of The Hague, and many other stakeholders.