Permanent Court of Arbitration
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A court set up to settle disputes between states was paid for by one of the world's richest men.
Who they are
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), based in The Hague.
What they do
It is an intergovernmental organization with 129 contracting parties.
How it works
The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 created the PCA. Andrew Carnegie funded the Peace Palace in 1913 to house it. The record does not show that Carnegie had any say over the court's rulings.
Why it matters
It shows how a body meant to settle disputes between nations can be set up by treaties but housed by private money.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "The Hague Conventions 3 (1899, 1907) created the Permanent Court of Arbitration 4 , and Carnegie funded the Peace Palace 5 (1913) to house it." Cross-sourced to pca-cpa.org — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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