IF IT feels like peace has become ever more elusive in our troubled world, that instinct is sadly borne out by the statistics. According to the institutions that research this, there are as many as 110 active armed conflicts in the world right now.

While we are familiar with the most high-profile ones — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s attack on Gaza, Lebanon and now Syria — some of the worst violence is happening in Africa.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, six million are already dead. South Sudan is in turmoil. But these conflicts rarely make the headlines and there seem to be few meaningful diplomatic efforts underway to secure an end to the violence. Racism and colonialism, two of the perpetual impediments to peace, are alive and well.