In search of peace in a volatile world

Most countries and regions in the world are facing trouble. The Middle East countries are battling religious terrorism and/or desperately trying to find a cure for their economic and socio-political ills.

The United States is caught up in the four-yearly trap of presidential elections, with presumptive Republican and Democratic candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton locked in a not-so-healthy debate even as the country wrestles with the ghost of racism in the aftermath of the killings of black civilians by white police officers. Yet the US continues to poke its nose in the affairs of other countries.

In the United Kingdom, leaders seem to have lost the plot. Prime minister David Cameron, who resigned on Wednesday, called the referendum on the UK's future in the European Union hoping British citizens would vote to remain in the EU. His expectation went horribly wrong and the country now appears to be in a mess. The people who led the Brexit campaign have either withdrawn or been sidelined from the race for the country's leadership. Newly-minted Prime Minister Theresa May now faces the consequences of Cameron's "good" work.