Peace under Law in the International System: A View from Africa

“Peace under law” had remained elusive, yet desirous all through the ages (centuries). The paper did set to examine its thrust which primarily centers why peace under law had remained elusive to humankind. The current international system is a legitimization of “power” over “social justice” thus the system being laden with the problems of poverty, diseases, terrorism, shelter, human rights abuses, disparities in wealth and incomes, climate change and internecine wars, thus the necessity for “peace” under “law”. All of these problems are intricately woven or connected with the global inequalities – social, political and economics and the unbridle desire of the leading states in controlling the current global system. The interplay of the problems had further exacerbated the guest for “peace under law” as the global inequalities had attracted elicit several methodologies and approaches that had followed the pattern of global north versus global south, thus, the question why has peace under law remained elusive to humankind in the current global system. The attempt at proffering answers to the question led the paper to several conclusions thus the recommendations canvass herein.