Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences held at The Hague in the Netherlands, the First Hague Conference of 1899 and the Second Hague Conference of 1907. Along with the Geneva Conventions, they were among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in the body of secular international law. The most tangible outcome of the 1899 conference was the creation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the first global mechanism for the peaceful resolution of international disputes, and the provisions of the 1907 Hague Regulations have come to be recognized as customary law binding regardless of formal ratification. A third conference planned for 1914, later rescheduled to 1915, never took place because of the outbreak of the First World War.