African peace initiative highlights immorality of conflict
Andre Thomashausen
The 10-point Ukraine peace plan presented by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sets out with the demand that diplomacy should replace gunfire.
Further down in the list, one finds an instruction for the “return of children”, where it is anybody’s guess whether children in the Ukraine were abducted for sinister purposes, or maybe just moved out of harm’s way.
Telling sovereign leaders what they should or should not do, will not make them agree to negotiations. Without leverage to influence the conduct of either side to a conflict, a mediator can only rely on his or
