That justice plays a crucial role in fostering peace is a factor many who have joined the pro-peace crusade appear to be overlooking or even downplaying.
Peace cannot be achieved through noisy jingles on the airwaves, but through concerted efforts at making justice prevalent and available for all regardless of social status.
Campaigns which ignore the foregone cannot achieve the desired dividend because any sense of peace when justice is denied is only a sham. When justice is subdued the repercussions are wholly negative and a threat to the existence of a state without doubt.
The civil strife witnessed in flashpoints worldwide is ample evidence of the fallouts of the denial of justice. Far-afield is the age-long Palestinian conundrum still impervious to treatments administered upon it.
Conferences upon conferences have been held including accords towards peace in that part of the world; all to no avail and the reason is not far-fetched; absence of the justice factor.
As we compose this commentary, arrangements have peaked for a peace engagement between the Palestinians and their Israeli counterparts at the behest of the US. We doubt very much whether anything substantial would come out of it. Our position is based upon the fact that there is a marked absence of justice in the equation. The Israelis continue to build fresh settlements on Palestinian lands even when such projects only aggravate an already explosive situation.
Fairness, equity and sincerity form the basis of justice; the deviation from any of these would render any efforts at ensuring peace a useless venture.
If only the efforts being exerted on the need for all to be peaceful could be used to ensure that justice is done, peace would come automatically.
Peace is a factor which comes automatically when the principal condition � justice � is allowed to fester without a hindrance by those upon who the task is bestowed by society.
Prayers towards the prevalence of justice, absence of selectiveness in the administration of justice, access to state resources and even employment, would go a long way in ensuring peace.
The foregone, when established adequately in our body-politic, would narrow the schism which has become the feature of our country in recent times.
Ghana, although not at war and nowhere near it, should be spared the manipulations which nearly pushed her to the precipice until the Supreme Court option was flown by the petitioners.
Only justice can ensure a peaceful Ghana and nothing else.
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