Thanks to World Pulse - the largest network of women, I now have a colleague in each of the 187 countries. So anything happens anywhere in the world and I can actually have someone to connect it to! And that's what I am doing now, linking the Failed State Index to my colleagues in - the failed states!
Early this week, I started reading the Failed State Index 2012 – an annual, globally recognized and accepted report prepared by the Washington DC- based organization Fund for Peace that ranks countries of the world according to their stability and capacity.
Topping the list of the failed states, for the fifth straight time, is Somalia. According to J J Messner,
editor of the report, if this was a championship, Somalia would be
called a legend. But since it’s not, the rank only indicates how bad the
state of affairs is in the country where chaos and conflicts rule.
Things are almost equally bad in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
which has gotten the dubious 2nd place. Also sharing the space in the
top 10 bracket is Zimbabwe.
Now, I have read this report a couple of times in earlier and just
took them as what they were: a compilation of facts. But this year as I
was reading it, a series of faces flashed before my eyes; women who are
young, energetic, forever challenging, forever questioning everything
that is wrong and, what’s more, also working to set them right.
These women come from these failed states, but are anything but a
representative of failure. And here’s the reason why I thought of them:
they are women of our very own World Pulse change-makers’ fraternity.
