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The Akan people of Ghana had an observation about eyes and fire that became one of their most precise moral teachings. The observation was this: that when a person's eyes are red — when they are inflamed with frustration, anger, or the kind of impatience that wants to act before it has thought — fire does not necessarily follow.

Every culture has its own understanding of peace. Some treat it as the absence of conflict — a negative state defined by what it lacks. The Akan people of Ghana gave peace a different definition, and a different image. Adwo names a condition that is not simply the end of disturbance but the presence of something worth having.