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November 30, 2006 CONTACT: Media Relations Phone: (202) 530-1000 Fax: (202) 530-1080 E-mail: media@icaf.org Url: www.icaf.org The Lancet publishes an essay on ICAF The leading British medical journal The Lancet published this month a special issue on “Medicine and Creativity” which includes an essay by ICAF executive director Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq on “Development of children’s creativity to foster peace.” Dr. Ishaq writes: “Peace-making as merely a subdiscipline of statecraft has little value when any small group can cause unimaginable destruction, and violence becomes a socially accepted response to perceived threats. For a global culture of peace to be built, the next generation must be imbued with new systems of thinking and feeling.” He explains ICAF’s Peace through Art approach and how ICAF employs the power of the arts to enable children to lead us to a better and safer world by developing their innate creativity and intrinsic empathy. Dr. Ishaq concludes: “The time has come to include the ability to create and cooperate in children’s developmental goals and accompanying efficacy measures of learning.” The essay was written at the invitation of Udani Samarasekera of the Lancet
and appears in the Volume 368, December 2006 issue. | ||
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