The 21, September 2011, Rwanda joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International Day of Peace. The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by resolution 36/67 of the United Nations General Assembly to coincide with its opening session, which was held annually on the third Tuesday of September.

The first Peace Day was observed in September 1982. In 2001, the General Assembly by unanimous vote adopted resolution 55/282, which established 21 September as an annual day of non-violence and cease-fire.

The UN invites all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day, and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on issues related to peace.

This peace day compels me to ask a question: "Are women home noble peace makers?  Different people gave their views.

Joshua Byaruhanga an administrator and a social worker, says that:  "Women play a great role in making peace in homes, when a woman relaxes in finding solutions to rising problems or challenges in a home, it is destroyed.”

Praising his mother for being a strong financial manager and a home peace maker,  Byaruhanga says that  women who are not able to manage their family finances , cause more harm than good, extravagant women cause pain and agony in their homes.

Byaruhanga further says; it is believed that women are the roots of peace in a family.  If a woman neglects her duties and does contrary to what is expected from her as a wife,  it may lead to poverty, domestic violence and child neglect to mention a few.

Nenny Mugeni a teacher married with two children says that if a woman wants peace to prevail in a home, it will. Women are drivers of peace. They have powers to change their awful men into nice people.  

Wiser women are strong pillars of their homes, when things fall apart with the spouse, they will make sure that the situation stills without causing insecurity, abuse or any quarrels. A submissive woman will always make peace reign in a home. 

The investigator in Cameroon observed that: "In almost all the African cultures, peace is equated with ‘freshness’, health, well being, harmony, calm and tranquillity.”

The absence of such qualities was seen as a sign of conflicts, which could be either latent or overt. It was that harmony and freshness which provided farmers with good crops, fishermen with abundant catches and hunters with game.

When there was enough food for everyone, peace would reign in homes and families, clans and tribes. As nobody had any reason to be envious of anybody else, neighbouring communities could live in peace, visit one another during the off-seasons and attend weddings and funerals.

If I may emphasize the investigator’s opinion of living in harmony as a result of peace, noble women know the tactics they use to see that their family is in harmony. Peace brings out the whole well being of a home.

A peaceful home prospers, but a noble peace full woman is her husband’s favourite, her children believe in her.

If all women were noble home peace makers, imagine how our world will be!  A noble woman is the greatest treasure a home can ever have.

As I pen off, it is my cry that women become carriers of peace, so as peace to continue reigning in our homes, nations and the world at large.

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