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  Law as a Pathway to Peace: Navanethem “Navi” Pillay and the Architecture of Global Justice – By Dr. Rahul S. Kharat A note on the premise: Navanethem Pillay has not won the Nobel Peace Prize, as the laureate list at nobelprize.org confirms. Her contribution to peace is nonetheless substantial, and this article treats her as what she is: a jurist, judge, and UN human rights chief whose career shows how law can build peace. Abstract Navanethem Pillay (b. 1941) is a South African jurist who rose from apartheid-era Durban to the highest offices of international justice. She was a judge and later President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), a judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. This article assesses her contribution to world peace through Johan Galtung’s distinction between negative peace, the absence of direct violence, and positive peace, the presence of justice and...