Art is therefore a means of communication, and communication holds the key to conflict resolution.
I can only refer to my personal experience. My artistic work has always been the resolution of an inner conflict, a peaceful one but intense nonetheless. On the other hand, you know that sometimes diplomacy, which is just formal government efforts at conflict resolution, is called an art, and I would venture to say it is the art of the improbable. So there's always been a connection between the two that I can now experience first-hand as the Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States who is also an artist, or the other way around. Both my passion for art and my search for peace grew out of my experience in Lebanon, while I was raising a family in the midst of the war.