Once governments and leaders learn one of the most important secrets in life, which is just to listen, most political leaders and governments today have lost the edge to listen, they have made a reputation for themselves in talking what they believe masses want to hear, however in the actual sense what they believe in is what the masses wanted to hear in their last campaign. People are evidence of a spoken word and they are evidence of peace, once politicians start to listen to the masses then peace is evident yes peace is possible, big speeches and big charisma will not justify the purpose of peace, peace is only evident when leaders and governments start to listen to the masses that is truly the evidence of peace.

Edwin Mathe in relation to a BBC article on the Mali Presidential Run off Elections 11/08/13