That's the sign in front of the Peace Palace here in The Hague.
This is the seat of international law because it houses one of the the most famous court in the world - the International Court of Justice of simply called ICJ. Its main functions are to settle disputes such as territorial disptres submitted to it by states. It is not to be confused with the International Criminal Court.
As far as I know, our country's territorial dispute has not reach ICJ. There might be good reasons for it. Nonetheless ther have been a lot of cases submitted to ICJ. Amongst the recent Territorial disputes submitted are :
2008 - Maritime Dispute (Peru v. Chile)
2005 - Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)
2004 - Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine)
2003 - Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore)
2002 - Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute (El Salvador/Honduras: Nicaragua intervening) (El Salvador v. Honduras), Frontier Dispute (Benin/Niger)
2001 - Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia)
1999 - Territorial and Maritime Dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Honduras)
1998 - Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia/Malaysia), - Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria), Preliminary Objections (Nigeria v. Cameroon)
1996 - Kasikili/Sedudu Island (Botswana/Namibia)
1994 - Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria: Equatorial Guinea intervening)
1991 - Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain (Qatar v. Bahrain) , Maritime Delimitation between Guinea-Bissau and Senegal (Guinea-Bissau v. Senegal), East Timor (Portugal v. Australia)
1988 - Maritime Delimitation in the Area between Greenland and Jan Mayen (Denmark v. Norway)
1986 - Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute (El Salvador/Honduras: Nicaragua intervening), Border and Transborder Armed Actions (Nicaragua v. Honduras), Border and Transborder Armed Actions (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica)
1984 -Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (Tunisia v. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
1983 - Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali)
1982 - Continental Shelf (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Malta)
1981 - Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area (Canada/United States of America)
1978 - Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
1976 - Aegean Sea Continental Shelf (Greece v. Turkey)
1967 - North Sea Continental Shelf (Federal Republic of Germany/Netherlands)
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