SDG 16
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Building peace through national collaborations on conflict resolution workshops for local leaders.
Queen Mothers of Peace
A senior lecturer in Business Administration at Ashesi has advised the National Peace Council of Ghana for decades on conflict prevention, especially during presidential election periods in Ghana. In 2022 she re-engaged in her decades work with local leaders and youth in tertiary education on building mediation skills. She focused on queen mothers in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, to equip them with the mediation skills necessary to effectively play their roles in dispute prevention and resolution. Thirty-four queen mothers participated and enhanced their ability to resolve disputes and to consider effective approaches to dispute prevention.
Visuals Speak when Voices Fear to Speak
Faculty research spans principles that undergird peace and conflict negotiation, or causes of conflict, and ambiguous behavior that
represents both peace and conflict depending on how political behavior impacted families. A senior lecturer in the Humanities & Social
Sciences department emphasizes how some religious behavior deemed as fakery is often depicted by Ghanaian art, which impacts
communities. He investigates specific accusations of fakery related to some Christian religious leaders’ acts in contemporary Ghana,
moving images, and other popular visual forms’ (such as cartoons) contribution to assessments and accusations of fakery the impact
of religious leaders’ actions that citizens consider fake. He argues that the various analyzed cartoons and memes by the community
contribute to ongoing public discussions of the religious leaders’ fakery as a conduit to make public accusations of fakery on Ghanaian
religious matters, where it is often suppressed.
