Jaipur, Aug. 1 -- Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma and Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Saturday inaugurated the three-day Commonwealth Peace Mediation and Rule of Law Conference in Jaipur.

Speaking at the conference, CJI Surya Kant highlighted the close relationship between peace, mediation and the rule of law and said that peace should not be viewed as separate from the legal system.

"We meet here under a theme that sounds almost like a paradox. Peace, mediation and the rule of law. For centuries, we were trained to think of these two ideas as belonging to different worlds. The rule of law, we are taught, lives in the courtroom, in precedent, in the solemn authority of a judgement. Peace, on the other hand, was th...