{"id":22391,"date":"2026-07-07T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=22391"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:29:32","slug":"where-the-pursuit-of-justice-feels-as-inspiring-as-the-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2026\/07\/07\/where-the-pursuit-of-justice-feels-as-inspiring-as-the-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the pursuit of justice feels as inspiring as the architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Peace Palace in The Hague was a beautiful, meaningful structure. I learned so much about the importance of diplomacy and cooperation. Peace does not come easily, but rather, it takes a lot of communication, negotiation and respect for everyone involved to ensure international agreements. I was given the opportunity to learn about the relationships between countries not only by word of mouth, but also visibly through the many architectures and gifts given by many different places to make up the beauty of Peace Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2snAD84\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55378373613_90c07878f4_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4783\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Peace Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2snvbzU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55377308782_c22342f478_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4826\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stained with history<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2snzZwR\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55378247161_cd6bb473cd_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4838\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">International Court of Justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more about this blogger\u2019s study abroad program: <a href=\"https:\/\/mystudyabroad.missouri.edu\/_portal\/tds-program-brochure?programid=10916\">Policies and Institutions of the European Union<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peace Palace in The Hague was a beautiful, meaningful structure. I learned so much about the importance of diplomacy and cooperation. Peace does not come easily, but rather, it takes a lot of communication, negotiation and respect for everyone involved to ensure international agreements. I was given the opportunity to learn about the relationships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-22391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-netherlands"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22395,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391\/revisions\/22395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}