INTERVIEW: Justice Amara Okafor – Chief Justice, International Court of Justice

“I rule on law. At home, the floor rules on peace.”

Q: Justice Okafor, your Hague residence features Zen-Floor. How does wood fit a judge’s life?

Justice Amara Okafor: “After genocide hearings, I carry moral weight. I step onto the oak—barefoot—and the floor absorbs it. The grain is a ledger of justice—rings of drought, flood, survival. I walk it like a courtroom in silence. My clerk timed it: 22 minutes to full calm.”

Q: You meditate on it?

“Yes. I trace one ring per breath. By the 300th, I am centered. I wrote a dissent on refugee rights while pacing—‘Even trees seek asylum in time.’

Q: For other arbiters of truth?

“Install Zen-Floor. Let the wood be your silent counsel.”

 

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