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Since the end of the Cold War, a distressing number of countries around the world have fallen into chaos and have become failing states. More often than not these countries have been torn by civil war based on religion, ethnicity, tribalism, power sharing, or a combination thereof. One of the terrible consequences of these conflicts has been massive humanitarian crisis.

Teaching has always been, to a greater or lesser extent, a way of building bridges between the past, the present and the future. This challenge requires a critical reading by teachers of the conditions under which their duties are performed and the influence of their actions.

Doctors. Lawyers. Engineers. That's what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But were Mom and Dad right? Actually, the future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind, people like artists, inventors, storytellers, and caregivers. These right-brained people are the next business elite – the women and men who will power your organization.