I thought rather poignant was a photograph on the BBC by Guillermo Legaria of the AFP showing a crane carrying weapons that had been seized from Farc and ELN guerrillas in Colombia. The crane is being used to transport nearly ten thousand weapons for disposed. They will be melted down and reforged as rods to reinforce the foundations and columns of schools and hospitals in areas of armed conflict.

The image is both incongruous and reminiscent of the biblical verse from Isaiah 2:4 “They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore.”