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In the ninth season of the podcast, we are exploring peacebuilding in the context of the 10th anniversary of the UN’s Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda, reflecting on its impact since the adoption of Resolution 2250 in 2015.

Using music and education to inspire social change and international peace-building W/Janielle Beh. Janielle has run music workshops in Israel, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Rwanda, India and the United Arab Emirates, and was the Head of Piano at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music since 2018 into the period of the Taliban takeover in 2021.

Musik fur den Frieden (Germany - Russia youth initiative): works via concerts, film productions, international youth exchanges - concrete example of transnational youth peacebuilding through music & performance. On their site you find info on camps, prior concerts and a YouTube-channel of past work.

Musaik Dresden though primarily a music-education project, its model - free ensemble work, communal rehearsals, instruments for all, social-pedagogical support - stands as a live case study for how music programmes create inclusion, social cohesion, and potentially peace-oriented socialisation.

The Outside Music Show brought together musicians from Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal and Germany - strangers until that moment - to collaborate on a shared musical performance. Their rendition of the songs underlines how music can act as a bridge between cultures, creating solidarity and mutual understanding.

A podcast fully dedicated to exploring how music, rhythm, singing, and creativity support peace, conflict transformation, and emotional healing. Many episodes focus on youth, community building, and how musical practices create social connection.

https://www.audible.es/pd/Creative-Confidence-Audiolibro/080412714X?gclsrc=aw.ds&&source_code=ESMPP30DTRIAL4521020259037&ipRedirectOverride=true&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20445327496&gbraid=0AAAAADzxWuhvqzaWcyP6TaXeedbdUo9pB&gclid=CjwKCAiA55rJBhByEiwAFkY1QJGMVKbt5nuHImW08FQk52wLq5Z88SNgXPcPsw6n5kFk4IaRIUFixxoC8wcQAvD_BwESupports the idea that young people can use music and art to create positive social change. Encourages empathy, innovation, and collaboration — core values of peacebuilding.

Join Global Consultant Susan Coleman, Host of the Peacebuilding Podcast, and today’s most innovative, courageous and inspired practitioners as we explore strategies to intervene in complex systems to build consensus and common ground across divides of worldview, culture and difference.

Dr. Gillian Howell is a musical connector and changemaker whose creative practice and applied research explores the contributions of community music to post-war transitions and recovery including peacebuilding, community dialogue, and music restoration.

Bringing together artworks and key themes from the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) project, this podcast series will address how arts and the digital can be used to find alternative ways to engage with research ideas and approaches.

Music can be a powerful bridge for change.
The Music Bridge offers a space for stimulating, in-depth conversations with songwriters, singers, pop stars, actors, comedians and artists about the ways music interacts with issues in the real world – and how events in the world impact music. The focus is not on release cycles or promotion, but on meaning, context and lived experience.

Peace Talks covers peacemaking, nonviolent conflict resolution, social justice, media literacy, and other topics. Episodes are in interview format, and it is impressive how many interesting guests they have had on the show discussing a wide range of issues. The podcast has been posting a new episode on the last Friday of each month since 2003. Each episode is about one hour and contains between 2 and 3 separate interviews covering the topic.