The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize is a welcome reassertion of the committee’s unique stature and where it really stands—notwithstanding a few controversial previous choices—as an unequivocal partisan of world peace. The recipient of this year’s honour, the South African-born anti-apartheid campaigner and jurist, Navanethem Pillay, is a former judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which prosecutes individual perpetrators of heinous crimes, as well as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that adjudicates inter-state disputes, and one-time head of the UN office for human rights. She headed the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, delivering the first-ever ruling in 1998 on the crimes of genocide, designating rape and sexual harassment as acts of........

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