THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS: City of Peace, welcomes you!
Contribute to a world where Peace and Love will be available for everybody.
ICP and The Hague's Goals and Objectives
• Initiate and focalize actions in the Hague that are related to the heritage of this city in the perspective of Peace building.
. Respect and cooperate with existing Peace building initiatives.
• Communicate about the Peace building actions so that the Hague will be very visible as a City of Peace.
• Help other ICP ambassadors with their projects by getting Dutch people involved, willing to help.
• Give expertise on communication, conflict resolution, building communities et cetera to colleague ambassadors and to communities in the Hague that are in need of it towards more Peace and Love.
World Peace Flame at the Peace Palace at The Hague
ABOUT JOLANDA VAN WIJK
Jolanda was born in July 1967, in the middle of the country the Netherlands, the Utrecht area. She was raised Catholic and grew up as a cheerful and loving child who managed to find her own way. Her parents worked together, they had a butchery. They had four children, Jolanda is the third.
Jolanda lives with her family  in Maarssen, surrounded by a lot of water in a rural area. She loves walking, sings and plays a bit of piano and sometimes writes a poem.
Jolanda has learned a lot from home, at school and beyond. At a young age she felt world citizen, connected to all living things. She travelled in Europe, Australia and the United States (New York, Michigan and Isle Royale in lake Ontario) and visited Beijing and Bali.
Growing up, her life got many colors of the rainbow, and she regards that as a gift from mother and father nature. Her curious and opinionated nature makes her feel like an experienced life artist. Holistic / integral living is Jolanda's nature, dialogue is a her way of life.
Jolanda has worked for more than fifteen year for IBM and runs since 2008 her own company in conflict resolution training & support, coaching and sales support. See website http://www.jolandavanwijk.com .  She studied International Marketing management, Business Administration (post graduate) and Mediation and did many workshops and training in support of her development. With courage, empathetic ability and spiritual strength she helps people and organizations to live from their heart and inspiration. She is facilitator in Restorative Circles and initiator and focaliser of Restorative Circles the Netherlands. In 2015 she founded together with others the NGO Herstelcirkels (see http://herstelcirkels.nl/wordpress_bestanden/ ). You can find her on Linkedin: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/jolandavanwijk
 
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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (excerpted from Wikipedia)
The Hague is the seat of government in the Netherlands, and the capital city of the province of South Holland. With a population just over 500,000 inhabitants (as of 1 November 2012) and more than one million inhabitants including the suburbs, it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The combined urban area of The Hague and Rotterdam, with a population of approximately 2.9 million, is the 206th largest urban area in the world and the most populous in the country. Located in the west of the Netherlands, The Hague is in the centre of the Haaglanden conurbation and lies at the southwest corner of the larger Randstad conurbation.
The Hague is the seat of the Dutch government and parliament, the Supreme Court, and the Council of State, but the city is not the capital of the Netherlands which constitutionally is Amsterdam. King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands plans to live at Huis ten Bosch and works at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague, together with Queen Máxima. Most foreign embassies in the Netherlands and 150 international organisations are located in the city, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, which makes The Hague one of the major cities hosting the United Nations, along with New York, Vienna, Geneva, Tokyo and Nairobi.
The Criminal Court at The Hague
The city of The Hague contributes substantially to international politics: The Hague is home to over 150 international organisations. These include the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
After the establishment of the League of Nations, The Hague became the seat of the Permanent Court of International Justice, which was replaced by the UN's International Court of Justice after the Second World War. The establishment of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal (1981), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1993) and the International Criminal Court (2002) in the city further consolidated the role of The Hague as a center for international legal arbitration. Most recently, on 1 March 2009, a U.N. tribunal to investigate and prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri opened in the former headquarters of the Netherlands General Intelligence Agency in Leidschendam, a town within the greater area of The Hague.
The Hague is the fourth major centre for the United Nations, after New York, Geneva and Vienna. In line with the city's history as an important convention center and the current presence of institutions such as the ICJ, The Hague's city council employs a city branding strategy that aims to establish The Hague as the Legal Capital of the World and the International City of Peace and Justice.
Major international and European organisations based in The Hague include:
- Eurojust, European Union body composed of national prosecutors
- European Patent Office
- Europol, European Police Office
- Hague Academy of International Law, center for high-level education in both public and private international law
- Hague Conference on Private International Law, (HCCH), the oldest and preeminent private international law harmonisation institution
- International Court of Justice, located in the Peace Palace
- International Criminal Court, (ICC)
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, (ICTY)
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR, appeals court only). The tribunal itself is in Arusha, Tanzania.
- Iran-United States Claims Tribunal