12 institutions. This shows the importance of the international instances of protection of human rights: they represent the last hope for those who had lost trust and faith in justice, mainly those defenseless, oppressed and forgotten. There could hardly be, for a jusinternationalist, such a gratifying experience as the one I am living in these four days of visit to Peru. (...) This ceremony has great symbolic importance to me. I come from the Academy, to which I shall continue belonging. I belong to the University, the Universitas, which, by definition, has a universal vocation. As jusinternationalist, I uphold the principles of mankind reason above State reason.” (...).19 41. Two years later, in a co generic ceremony in another Peruvian University, on November 18, 2003, presided over by the President of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Dr. S. Lerner Febres), also President of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación Nacional (CVR) of Peru, I outlined, in my speech at that time "the continued applicability of the people´s law, the humanity laws and the demands of public conscience, regardless of the raising of new situations (...).”20 Once again, the Universitas found its true vocation as nucleus of culture and irradiation of culture, of the free circulation of ideas, of the recognition of the necessary prevalence of the Law above the force,21 of the intangibility of the rights inherent to the human being. After years of shadows, then the light came. The Universitas, as originally conceived, was in effect a center of cultural irradiation, of teaching and of transmission of culture. 42. Along the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, together with several attacks suffered in numerous countries, the University tragically lost sight of the original sense of its vocation, as it gradually limited itself to a “specialized” professional research center, thus substituting culture, so important to life. In our times, the University is still attacked and shown as trivial, in many ways. In a renown manifest of 1930, in defense of the recovery of the University and its teaching and transmission of cultural subjects role, J. Ortega y Gasset warned: "La vida es un caos, una selva salvaje, una confusión. El hombre se pierde en ella. Pero su mente reacciona ante esa sensación de naufragio y perdimiento: trabaja por encontrar en la selva 'vías', 'caminos'; es decir: ideas claras y firmes sobre el Universo, convicciones positivas sobre lo que son las cosas y el mundo. El conjunto, el sistema de ellas es la cultura en el sentido verdadero de la palabra; todo lo contrario, pues, que ornamento. Cultura es lo que salva del naufragio vital, lo que permite al hombre vivir sin que su vida sea tragedia sin sentido o radical envilecimiento. No podemos vivir humanamente sin ideas. De ellas depende lo que hagamos (...). Es forzoso vivir a la altura de los tiempos y muy especialmente a la altura de las ideas del tiempo. Cultura es el sistema vital de las ideas en cada tiempo. (...) La Universidad contemporánea ha (...) [quitado] casi por completo la enseñanza o transmisión de la cultura.”22 19 A.A. Cançado Trindade, "Speech by the President of the Inter-American Human Rights Court at the Celebrations during the 450th Anniversary of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Appointed as Emeritus Professor),” 58 Revista de Derecho y Ciencia Política de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima (2001) nrs. 1-2, pp. 729-730 and 733, paras. 21-24 and 33. 20 A.A. Cançado Trindade, "Hacia el Nuevo Jus Gentium del Siglo XXI: El Derecho Universal de la Humanidad", in A.A. Cançado Trindade Doctor Honoris Causa - Cuadernos del Archivo de la Universidad (No. 39), Lima, PUC/Peru, 2005, p. 38, and cf. pp. 30-41. 21 Cf., Regarding that matter, A.A. Cançado Trindade, A Humanização do Direito Internacional, Belo Horizonte/Brasil, Edit. Del Rey, 2006, pp. 175-193. 22 J. Ortega y Gasset, Misión de la Universidad (1930), Madrid, Rev. Occidente/Alianza Ed., 2002 [reed.], pp. 35-36, and cf. pp. 37, 40-41 and 53.