{"id":871,"date":"2015-03-04T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/?p=871"},"modified":"2016-10-28T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:15:02","slug":"african-women-a-force-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/africa\/2015\/03\/04\/african-women-a-force-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"African Women \u2013 a Force for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Queens of Africa<\/a>” is a line of black dolls inspired by the three largest tribes in Nigeria.<\/strong> They wear the wonderful traditional dresses of the three queens. And I love the song in the promotional video<\/a> portraying the three queens\u2014one of them is the Queen of Peace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Ellen<\/a>
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: 2011 Nobel Peace Nobel Prize laureate
Source: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLack of peace is one of the main obstacles for doing business in Africa <\/span><\/a>, and obviously but most importantly, lack of peace and insecurity\u00a0destroys many lives both physically and morally (see related\u00a0post here<\/a>). Most armed conflicts currently taking place are in Africa. How many do you think there are? <\/span><\/a>\n

The answer is 13 out of 35 (37%) of the armed conflicts<\/strong> around the world are in Africa<\/strong>. Social tensions need to be considered as well (37 in Africa out of 95 in total, or 39%). Bear in mind that these figures include all of Africa.\u00a0 They are taken from the latest Barometer on Conflicts and Peace<\/a> building that the Escola de Cultura de Pau (The School for a Culture of Peace) at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona publishes quarterly.<\/p>\n

Out of the 13 armed conflicts, eight are taking place in sub-Saharan Africa and none is in Southern Africa (the areas on which I focus). At a glance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Country<\/td>\nIntensity*<\/td>\nTrend<\/td>\nBeginning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CAR<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n=<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Central Africa**<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n=<\/td>\n1986<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DRC (East)<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n\u2193<\/td>\n1998<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DRC (East – ADF)<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n\u2193<\/td>\nn.a.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ethiopia<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n=<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mali<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n\u2193<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nigeria<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n\u2191<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Somalia<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n\u2191<\/td>\n1988<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

* Range: 1 = low intensity to 3 = high intensity
\n** This conflict extends across multiple countries in Central Africa<\/p>\n

Peaceful countries (22 out of 45) with neither armed conflict nor social tensions are:<\/p>\n