CGNK co-sponsors International Conference on Music, Power and Liberty

The Center for Global Nonkilling is co-sponsoring the International Conference on Music, Power and Liberty organized in Paris on February 3-4 by the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research.

The Conference builds upon previous projects, such as the 2005 Madrid Toda Conference, from which the first Toda Institute publication on the subject came out: Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances (Urbain ed., 2008). Building on the success of this first publication on the subject of Music and Peace, the Toda Institute helped organize an international conference in Tunis, Tunisia, in February 2011. The result was published as Music and Solidarity: Questions of Universality, Consciousness and Connection (Laurence and Urbain eds., 2011).

Continuing research into this innovative field, this conference on “Music, Power and Liberty” will discuss aspects such as “Music and social change”, “Music as a way to challenge oppression” or Music for inner freedom”, under the framework of the main research question: “In the struggle between liberty and oppression, in what ways can the power of music be mobilized?”.

CGNK Interim Director Joám Evans Pim will be participating in the event held in the American University of Paris with a presentation on nonkilling restraint mechanisms. Other participants include scholars and activists from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, France, Spain, Japan, Germany, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the United States.