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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 2008
Citizen-to-Citizen Diplomacy, Cultural Exchange Between
Pakistan and
Dayton,
Ohio,
U.S.A.
The Pakistani Interfaith League Against Poverty (I-LAP) is hosting
Dayton International Peace Museum Director, Steve Fryburg, at a series
of peace education events in
Islamabad.
At the request of Mr. Sajid Ishaq, Chairman of the Interfaith League
Against Poverty (I-LAP), Steve Fryburg, Director of the
Dayton
International
Peace
Museum in
Dayton,
Ohio,
U.S.A., traveled this
week to
Islamabad,
Pakistan, to teach peace and
nonviolence. The I-LAP is a peace organization in
Pakistan
working to end poverty and foster peace.
When Fryburg reached
Islamabad, he attended a briefing with
I-LAP
leadership on the current situation in
Pakistan and about the peace
group's plans for the future, including:
- Launch a Nationwide Peace Campaign in all of
Pakistan's 110 political districts
- Establish a Peace Studies Institute Initiate Interfaith Dialogues with
newly elected government
- Establish Community Peace Resource Centers at district level
- Establish an interfaith orphanage
The Vision of the I-LAP organization:
"To create a new generation of peace workers, peace defenders and peace
negotiators towards catalyzing positive changes in the community towards
prevention of conflicts and promotion and sustenance of peace in the
multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Pakistan and beyond."
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"They will make a wonderful Global Peace Partner for the
Dayton
International
Peace
Museum and for those around the
world who want peace," said Fryburg from
Islamabad. "The group is
interested in teaching peace and conflict resolution to elementary and
high school students."
Fryburg gave to the agency a copy of the Dayton International
Peace
Museum's sponsored
PeaceAbilities tm program with a training book and
materials for implementation. He also gave members of I-LAP Peace
Warrior discussion cards for youth, a peace calendar done by American
high school students, and peace cards about a Pakistani nonviolent
hero, Badshah Khan, who was a contemporary of Mohandas Gandhi.
Fryburg has a full schedule of peace education events in Islamabad and
beyond, including five university lectures and discussions with
post-graduate students at local universities. He will also address two
groups of younger children on nonviolence and peace.
Photo: Steve Fryburg, Director of the Dayton International Peace
Museum with members of the Interfaith League Against Poverty:
.Mr. Sajid Ishaq, Chairman of I-LAP, Fryburg, and Ms. Hina Iqbal, Head
of Peacebuilding Department.
www.ilappk.org for more
information about this excellent peace organization.
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