We have made it to the final day of the trip and my final blog. On this final day we stopped in the political district of the Netherlands, The Hague. Unlike America where the capital is also where all the politicians are, the Netherlands separates the two in order to keep influence balanced throughout the country. They thought that having all the lawmakers in the capital, Amsterdam, would make policy very local and not help out minority parties nearly as much. Personally I think that their system works pretty well for them and their ideology is definitely on point because even when state legislators are compacted in areas of very single sided political views, like in Maryland, I think that most people in the state just can’t their needs met. 

     The main spot I visited in the hauge was the peace palace and it was a lot more impactful to world wide politics than I initially thought. Before getting the rundown on what it actually was, I thought the peace palace was just another spot for the king or queen to live but oh was I wrong. The peace palace, as I found out, is the main court for worldwide criminals that have no specific place to be procecuted. Some generals from the Balkan wars and some from World War Two were procecuted in the peace palace and given a fair trial even after their atrocities they committed on the human rights race. 

     Essentially the peace palace doesn’t doesn’t link to sustainability in the traditional sense but it actually works on the sustainable development goals. Specifically it’s SDG 16, peace justice and strong institutions. The entirety of the hauge and specifically the peace palace work to create a sustainable justice system for humans to ensure everyone is treated equally.