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Collector and Notary Martijn F. Le Coultre saw the beauty of the poster when he was in his teens and from that moment on started to build up his immense collection. In an interview he shares: “I still find posters that I cannot resist.

"The foulest blot remaining upon so-called civilized man, beyond question, is the killing of each other. That he has ceased to eat his fellows after killing them matters nothing to the slain and little to the survivors. It is the killing of each other that stamps man still the savage.

The 1918 poster "Joan of Arc Saved France", by Haskell Coffin (1878-1941), was commissioned by the United States Treasury Department as part of the campaign to raise money for the First World War by having civilians buy war savings stamps.

American Railroad advertisement poster, Keep ‘em going! ”Every bad order Locomotive is a Prussian soldier. Every life Locomotive is an American soldier. Let us get on the top Prussian Locomotives and make American soldiers out of them”.

Recruitment poster for the United States Army. Marching soldiers. Some soldiers are making an inviting gesture. Text:

The gardens are full of lovely yellow daffodils ‘Thomas Mawson’. During last year’s Centennial celebrations, Thomas H. Mawson, the famous British landscaper who designed the gardens and grounds of the Peace Palace, was honored with a special daffodil (narcissus) that bears his name.

Article 247, second clause, of the Treaty of Versailles, signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, Paris, in 1919 between Germany and the Allied Powers stated:

In the last 10 years cyber attacks on states, non-state actors and civilians have shown to be a powerful weapon to create serious havoc and disruption.

Postcard from the days of the First World War. Translated from Dutch: ‘Disturbed Peace-Illusion’. On the back: 'Disturbed Peace-Illusion. The Angel of Peace expelled from the Peace Palace by the War Demon'. Weenenk & Snel, The Hague. 14 67695. Dated 1914.

Postcard from the days of the First World War. Translated from Dutch: ‘Did you already see the Peace Palace from the inside?’. On the back: Postcard. Lithography Van de Ven – The Hague. Dated 1914.

Poster from World War I expressing German anxiety over the proposed construction of a Channel Tunnel linking Belgium and England, c.1914-1918. Translated from German: Can Belgium be allowed to become England’s deployment area?

"The Peace Palace as European Heritage" The construction of the Peace Palace in the Hague, completed 101 years ago, passed in a more peaceful way than was to be expected considering its chosen procedure and its chosen architect.

Ironically, or perhaps appropriately, it was during World War II that work began on what was to become the seminal bibliography of the great Dutch jurist and founder of international law, Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), to be published in 1950 under the joint authorship of Jacob Ter Meulen and P.J.J.

In this case the Technical University of Darmstadt digitized a book in its possession, of which the copyright belongs to publisher Eugen Kulmer KG.

Israel and the Palestinian territories count some 12 million inhabitants. Half of them are younger than 25 years. The success of peace negotiations, previously facilitated by U.S.

Water is essential to life. The growing disposition of this precious natural resource in the last decades has urged for more international cooperation and for the development of international water law.

The question concerning the nature of the EU has been one of the most contested political and academic issues of the last fifty years.

From 15 to 17 September 2014, 3 institutions (the UNHCR, the agency mandated by the General Assembly to help states to address statelessness, and the Statelessness Programme of Tilburg Univer

In spite of the European nature of the project, the first guests we welcomed came from Mt. Pleasant, Michigan in the United States.

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It terminated war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.