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A curator ( of my private museum in the near future )

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I'm so interested in stringed instruments. It's my life. Available for:

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Faculty, Advisor of Music and Peacebuilding Major, Director of Choirs and Orchestra

Primary Affiliation

Eastern Mennonite University

I am passionate about using music in ways that bring people together to create common ground and understanding. Music has powerful capabilities to increase empathy and work together. I started an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in Music and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University (home of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding). I also collaborate with many groups around the university, community, and world to bring these theories and practices to life for our students. I am always looking for people to brainstorm, make music, and help expand and amplify this field. Available for: Project Collaboration, Writing/Speaking, Performing, Organizing Workshops, Education Consulting, studying Music and Peacebuilding in higher education

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Professor of Music Education at the University of Iowa

Primary Affiliation

University of Iowa

With a strong interest and practice in peacebuilding, meditation, yoga, group singing, and improvisation, I am a Professor of Music Education at the University of Iowa. I research music-making and well-being, songwriting, and collaborative communities and am lead author of Music-Making in U.S. Prisons: Listening to Incarcerated Voices (2022) with Stuart Duncan. As co-founder and facilitator of the International Music and Justice Network: IMAJIN Caring Communities, a group of researchers from 14 countries who meet monthly and collaborate on projects, I am building connections among people across the globe focusing on music-making in prisons. From 2009 to 2020 I led the Oakdale Prison Community Choir and songwriting workshop where participants have written over 150 songs, and the Oakdale Choir has performed over 75 of these songs, available with the Creative Commons License. I have been a keynote for conferences in Germany, Canada, and Portugal, interviewed by the BBC3 Music Matters radio show, and has over 40 publications in journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. I implemented ungrading in my college courses and am working on a collaborative autoethnography about grading contracts with four graduate students. I am creating songwriting partnerships between incarcerated and non-incarcerated songwriters. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Performing, Organizing Workshops, Education Consulting, Composition/Songwriting

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Application of ethnomusicology for sustainable music and peacebuilding in local communities in Nigeria. Lecturer in the University of Maiduguri. Applied music/music production.

Primary Affiliation

University of Maiduguri

I have passion for drawing, painting, theatre arts and I'm using music to spread the message of a sustainable future and to empower the younger generation through learning and reviving of declining traditional music and instruments, as a result of violence/insurgency in North-Eastern Nigeria. I am starting a community music studio where children and youths can learn, record, and produce traditional/indigenous music. This would empower the younger generation and provide a space for their voices to be heard, alongside self-development. Available for: Project Collaboration, Writing/Speaking, Performing, Strategic Planning, Composition/Songwriting

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Research Fellow with MOMRI

Primary Affiliation

Soka University of America

Secondary Affiliation

Min-On Music Research Institute

Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Composition/Songwriting

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Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne

Primary Affiliation

The University of Melbourne

Gillian Howell is a musician, researcher, educator and activist working at the nexus of participatory arts, community development, and education in its many forms. She's been gathering and connecting people through music with her community-engaged research and practice in Australia and around the world for over two decades. Voice and connection are the through-lines and connective tissue of all her work. As a performer, facilitator, composer, sound artist, and community cultural development practitioner she works with diverse communities to create musical ways of telling their stories, to connect with each other through shared music-making, and to explore new soundworlds and modes of expression. Gillian's collaborations span diverse contexts, including with remote Indigenous communities, in classrooms and community contexts with recently-arrived child migrants and refugees, and in post-war countries in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Asia. She has transformed the community engagement programming of Australia's symphony orchestras and cutting-edge new music ensembles, and worked as a musician and workshop leader with development organisations within the structures of international development aid. She is committed to training and supporting the next generations of musicians and music educators to put their creativity and artistic skills to work in making a more just, equitable, and peaceful world. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Organizing Workshops, Education Consulting, Composition/Songwriting

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As a peace builder I have been organising dialogue and reconciliation workshops in the North Caucasus. In this work my Chechen and Russian colleagues and I explore combining musical and verbal dialogues. This revolutionised our dialogue and reconciliation work. In particular, we stumble of how using music in this way can create conditions for collective ability transformation to unfold. I have researched and documented this work extensively in my PhD dissertation (Jordanger, 2021). More recently, in my work as a guide/coach I have been using music in archetype embodiment work with groups online. In this personal development work my colleagues and I have been combining guided meditations and music in a way that deepens the music experience and archetype discovery and embodiment processes.

Primary Affiliation

Kolin

I am a guide, facilitator, researcher and entrepreneur who have used music in various contexts in my professional work and roles since the beginning of this millennium. I have also organised music festivals in my local community for a number of years. As a researcher I have documented how combining musical and verbal dialogues can allow for the unfolding of profound relational trust and transformation processes between parties in conflict (arguably much faster and deeper compared to more conventional verbally based approaches to dialogue). Currently I'm exploring how music can be used in combination with nature-based practices in personal development and leadership development work more specifically. This could be referred to as peace building work focused on targeting structural and cultural violence, having to do with ways of being stemming from the dominant Western worldview. In this work I am among other things exploring the music tradition of the Sami people (indigenous people living in the Nordic countries and the north-west part of Russia), learning from eminent musicians who have Sami backgrounds. I'm happy to share my knowledge and expertise about how to combine musical and verbal dialogues in a variety of settings, as well as how to combine music with nature-based practices in personal development and leadership work. Available for: Project Collaboration, Organizing Workshops, Strategic Planning, Digital Project Consulting

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Pianist. Researcher. Lecturer-Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea.

Primary Affiliation

Sookmyung Women's University

Available for: Project Collaboration, Writing/Speaking, Performing

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Assistant Lecturer

Primary Affiliation

Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

International Relations Master Program at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, who loved writing-research for Diplomacy and International Relations Studies. Probably for the near time I'm Preparing for My Doctoral Studies Insya Allah. Now, I interested in Critical Discourse Analysis and American-Russian Studies and Propaganda. Available for:

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I am a music therapist and am currently working with children with special needs, autism, adhd, developmental disorders, and mental health issues in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Many of the children I work with are Maori (indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand), so I am right at the source of cultural and political issues that are present in New Zealand today (colonialism, racism, economical differences, etc.). I am learning to understand how I can use music in a culturally sensitive way and also build bridges between the existing divides with the help of music.

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Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust

I was born in Germany but raised in Rotorua in Aotearoa, New Zealand. I have always felt a strong connection to Aotearoa and its beautiful nature, culture, and especially people. Working for the Bay of Plenty as a music therapist has been her dream for many years. Music has always played an essential role in my life, and singing is one of my greatest passions. I hold a bachelor’s degree in primary school teaching with a major in music from the University of Education in Freiburg, Germany. In 2022 I obtained a master's in music therapy from the University of The Arts - ArtEZ, in The Netherlands. Throughout my life and studies, I have experienced the healing powers of music as a therapeutic treatment, and have learned to understand music’s importance for people’s wellbeing and happiness. I have worked with various groups of people such as children and grown-ups with special needs and applied music therapy in a psychiatric setting. I love seeing participants engage in, with, and through music which inspires me deeply, and I believe that music can help people grow and express themselves. Being the facilitator of such important and intimate processes is very special and important to me. My passion for music therapy and peacebuilding came about when I was studying. Through that I contacted Dr. Urbain and we have been in touch ever since. I think music can be a great tool to provide inner peace and peace among communities worldwide. I am fascinated by how music can influence people’s identity and culture and how music can help with establishing connections and overcoming differences. My master and bachelor thesis focused on the use of music therapy in the processes of peacebuilding. I interviewed various different experts within the field about their views on goals and approaches in the field of music and peacebuidling with a special focus on music therapy. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Music Therapy Consulting

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Board Certified Music Therapist Neurologic Music Therapist Certified Social Worker Certified Child-Care Worker

Primary Affiliation

Epica.Co.,Ltd

Ai Nakatsuka gained her first bachelor’s degree in social work in Japan, her second bachelor’s in music therapy in the US, and her master's in music therapy in the Netherlands. After working with individuals with neurological and developmental disabilities in the US for four years, Ai joined a two-year volunteer program called Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and worked with students with developmental disabilities at a private school in Sudan. Ai went back to Sudan multiple times to work at the school as a music therapist for over three years and also got involved in multiple music projects which include the Khartoum Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, the Foundation of Music Education in Sudan, Sudanese Music Research Project, and Armistice Project. She is a former research affiliate at ArtEZ University of the Arts and former Rotary global grant scholar. She is currently working at day care facilities for children with disabilities in Japan while continuing to support the people of Sudan as a clinician and novice researcher. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Organizing Workshops, Music Therapy Consulting

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I'm the founder of the blog Everyday Peacebuilding which helps peacebuilders find creative approaches to build peace, including through music and the arts.

Primary Affiliation

Everyday Peacebuilding

Secondary Affiliation

People Building Peace group/community

I'm the founder of a peacebuilding blog called Everyday Peacebuilding. The focus is helping experienced and aspiring peacebuilders find creative ways to build peace. One area of my research and writing includes mapping approaches for the use of music and arts for building peace. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Organizing Workshops, Strategic Planning, Digital Project Consulting

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Teaching a number of courses at several universities in Slovenia and abroad, including Applied ethnomusicology, giving guest lectures internationally, participating in research projects, and serving as President of the International Council for Traditional Music. Additional affiliations include: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, University of Visual and Performing Arts Colombo.

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University of Ljubljana

Secondary Affiliation

University of Maribor

It is our responsibility to use our knowledge, understanding, and skills to contribute to the betterment of conditions for all on our shared mother Earth. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Strategic Planning, Education Consulting

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Student researcher

Primary Affiliation

University of Virginia

Secondary Affiliation

SciencesPo, Paris

I am an undergraduate researcher studying Global Studies (concentration in peace and human rights), music (vocal performance), and French literature. I am currently writing an undergraduate thesis about the role of music in peace-building, the theoretical frameworks that guide this work, and the effects of using music in peace-building activities around the world. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Performing, Organizing Workshops, Strategic Planning

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Vice-dean of Extension and Social Projection of the Faculty of Integrated Arts, Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia). Professor and Coordinador of the Music Pedagogy area of the Music School (same institution).

Primary Affiliation

Universidad del Valle

Secondary Affiliation

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

PhD candidate specializing in the Social Impact of Music Making, holding an MA in Music Education from the University College London, Institute of Education, with Distinction. Additionally, I earned a BA in Musical Arts with Merit from the District University of Bogotá. My professional background includes significant experience as a consultant and academic coordinator for musical and artistic projects emphasizing social impact. I have demonstrated expertise in formulating and executing policies and programs across diverse formal and informal educational contexts. Notably, I served as the coordinator of the training component and pedagogic advisor for the National Music Plan for Living Together (PNMC) at the Ministry of Culture in Colombia, contributing to the implementation of musical policies and strengthening over 1,000 non-formal music schools for bands, choirs, orchestras, and popular and traditional music nationwide between 2010 and 2014. As a founding member of "Sonido Colectivo," I actively contribute to a knowledge community fostering dialogue among individuals, agents, and institutions interested in comprehending the role and impact of music in social construction within the Colombian context. Presently, I hold the position of a full-time music pedagogy professor at the University of Valle. Simultaneously, I am a doctoral researcher at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London supported by the Social Impact of Music Making platform (SIMM). Under the guidance of Professors John Sloboda and Geoff Baker, my research delves into the implications of non-formal music schools for human development and social construction in Colombia. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Strategic Planning, Education Consulting, Digital Project Consulting, Consulting on Musical Policy

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Research Fellow - MOMRI - Tokyo, Japan. Research and Development Manager (Arts and Humanities) - University of York, UK

Primary Affiliation

Min-On Music Research Institute

Secondary Affiliation

University of York

Craig has a PhD in Music Sociology from the University of Exeter, a MMus in Contemporary Music Studies from Goldsmiths College and a PGCE in Secondary School Music from Middlesex University. His PhD explored the role of music-making in post-conflict reconstruction in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Prior to joining the HRC, Craig was the Head of Research at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy UK. He continues to be a Research Associate at the Min-On Music Research Institute (MOMRI) in Tokyo, Japan. Craig previously worked at York at the Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) in Politics in 2012 on Out in the Open, an interdisciplinary research project that examined the role of the arts in the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ events in North Africa. Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Performing, Organizing Workshops, Strategic Planning, Music Therapy Consulting, Composition/Songwriting, Digital Project Consulting

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Research Fellow at Min-On Music Research Institute (MOMRI). Developer of the Hub for Music in Peacebuilding.

Primary Affiliation

Min-On Music Research Institute

Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Strategic Planning, Digital Project Consulting

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Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities: Researcher, Education Leader, Podcaster

Primary Affiliation

Elizabethtown College

Available for: Project Collaboration, Research Consulting, Writing/Speaking, Organizing Workshops, Education Consulting, Digital Project Consulting

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Director of the Min-On Music Research Institute (MOMRI).

Primary Affiliation

Min-On Music Research Institute

Secondary Affiliation

Soka University, Japan

I was born in Belgium, studied in the US and the UK, and I've been living in Japan since 1991. I participated in the design and publication of one of the first collective books on the topic, entitled Music and Conflict Transformation: harmonies and dissonances in geopolitics (2008, 2015) published by I.B. Tauris (now Bloomsbury) as its editor. As an amateur pianist, when I play, I wonder about how to contribute to a better world, and as an educator, when I teach peace studies, I consider the application of music in peacebuilding activities. Besides teaching, nowadays I devote myself to the development of the MOMRI Hub as a space where new connections can emerge, between all kinds of people interested in the juxtaposition and merging of musical and peacebuilding activities. Available for: Project Collaboration