Abstract
These things also require their material forms, their easily recognizable visible symbols, their homes. . . . [With the Peace Palace,] international justice between nations has moved into a splendid home. The proud building is standing now, visible, and tangible: Temple, symbol and workplace. At least the spirit of peace is no longer homeless.
Highlights
These things require their material forms, their recognizable visible symbols, their homes. . . . [With the Peace Palace,] international justice between nations has moved into a splendid home
As the residence of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Court of Justice, the Peace Palace is one of the most prominent stages of international law and a visible symbol of the international community of equal sovereign states; the magisterial scenery to the practice of the international community to promote the goals of international justice and create a peaceful international order
As a specific type of performance, rituals at once materialize an abstraction into an embodied presence and present that abstraction as something sacred.[7]. We suggest that both aspects are at work in the Peace Palace: both the building and the gifts it received contributed to the constitution of this emergent international community by making it simultaneously visualizable, imaginable, real, and sacred
Summary
We consider how the Peace Palace functions as an invitation to imagine and enact the international community, through its construction and through the gifts that states donated to the new Courthouse. We suggest that both aspects are at work in (the construction of) the Peace Palace: both the building and the gifts it received contributed to the constitution of this emergent international community by making it simultaneously visualizable, imaginable, real, and sacred
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