"Peace is not just the absence of conflict," she said, quoting Nelson Mandela. Charlize Theron shouted out for peace in a surprise moment you may have missed at Friday’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony. (Watch it below.) The Oscar-winning “Monster” star came out before the lighting of the Olympic cauldron to deliver a plea for harmony as a United Nations Messenger of Peace . “Athletes, spectators from every corner of the world, this is a message of peace by my beloved countryman Nelson Mandela,