Musicians without Borders works with peace and development organizations, collaborating on projects in many lands.

Oxfam Novib

Oxfam Novib supports Musicians without Borders in developing a new project for children in OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories).
Oxfam Novib, a member of Oxfam International, is fighting for a just world without poverty. Together with people, organisations, businesses and governments. Through projects and lobby. Locally and internationally. Because poverty and injustice are global problems. They are about unjust economic and political relationships.

That is why all the Oxfams are working together to have more influence and achieve more in our struggle for a just world without poverty.
www.oxfamnovib.nl

Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
(Dutch Wind Ensemble)

The Nederlands Blazers Ensemble is an orchestra of soloists from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the radio orchestras, the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague and the Holland Symfonia. The members perform 40 special programs per year, at home and abroad, including two international tours. They play a classical repertoire alongside works of the major composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. They regard each concert as an opportunity to move the audience and to bring them together within the musical experience. Adventurous programming is NBE's hallmark. The NBE regularly launches new and exciting collaborations with new composers, children, jazz musicians, world music players, dancers, deejays, veejays and producers. The NBE has its own concert series in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and in the 'rock temple' Paradiso. The spectacular New Year Concert in the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw is broadcast live on radio and television. The NBE recorded for Philips and Chandos. In 1999, the NBE started their own CD label NBELIVE with the motto 'for those who were there, or wished they were.'

www.nbe.nl

Muzičari bez Granica

Musicians without Borders Bosnia and Herzegovina (MWB BiH)
is an independent organization that was established through the vision and efforts of Musicians without Borders International, in cooperation with musicians, ensembles and other members of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s cultural society.

MwB BiH’s office in Sarajevo manages long-term projects like the Music Bus and the Pulse percussion projects; facilitates cooperative initiatives, such as the MwB-Netherlands Blazers Ensemble’s wind instrument project; and maintains contact, communication and cooperation with local partners in Bosnia-Herzegovina, e.g. the inter-religious choir Pontanima, the Mostar Sinfonietta, the Sarajevo Music Academy and Musers Music Therapy Institute in Mostar.
www.see-mwb.org

Community Building Mitrovica (CBM)

is a local organization in Mitrovica, Kosovo. CBM was initiated by IKV (Netherlands Inter-Church Council) and has been operational since 2001. CBM supports the rebuilding of the community in Mitrovica and the surrounding region and thus contributes to peace and stability in Kosovo. CBM runs projects in both the northern (Serb) and the southern (Albanian) part of town. MwB and CBM have worked together since 2001, providing instruments for music schools and young musicians, organizing a ‘Music without Borders Festival’ in Mitrovica, and creating a pop/rock school for the youth of the city.

www.cbmitrovica.org

Guns 2 Guitars, Jerusalem, Israel

Guns2Guitars organizes music meetings across lines of faith and background, both within Israel and in other countries. It produces CDs of songs in Hebrew, Arabic and English appealing to the common yearning for peace and co-existence. Guns2Guitars offers support and advice to young Israelis who refuse to take up arms and agitates for the right to conscientious objection in Israel.

www.guns2guitars.org

BI-Communal Choir, Cyprus

The Bi-Communal Choir for Peace in Cyprus brings Greek and Turkish Cypriots together to sing songs of both cultures in an appeal to all Cypriots to live together in peace. The choir, co-directed by Lena Melanidou and Caner Ilgar, participates in events and festivals encouraging dialogue and unification and joins Musicians without Borders’ international conferences.

CIVIL

CIVIL is a human rights organization based in Skopje, Macedonia. Its founders were intellectuals and artists from various professional backgrounds. MwB has co-operated with CIVIL several times, organizing and participating in Macedonian peace festivals. CIVIL established Peace Unlimited Artists (PUA), a database of musicians, dancers, theatre makers and creative individuals with a large diversity of ethnic backgrounds, using the arts to promote peace and understanding among ethnic groups in Macedonia. CIVIL runs a yearly Peace Unlimited Festival.

www.civil.org.mk

Unisono Foundation

is the Netherlands’ expertise center for amateur music. Unisono and Musicians without Borders collaborated in organizing two international conferences on music and reconciliation, under the title ‘Singing the Bridge’ in 2003 and 2004. In succeeding years, the two organizations have worked together to promote appreciation of cultural diversity and quality in community arts within the amateur music sector.

www.amateurmuziek.nl

Vrolijkheid

The National Foundation for the Promotion of Happiness (Nationale Stichting ter Bevordering van Vrolijkheid) organizes activities and events for children in centers for asylum seekers in the Netherlands. In cooperation with the Vrolijkheid, Musicians without Borders is training volunteer musicians to work creatively and effectively with children living in these centers, using musical games, singing and percussion to bring some happiness into their lives.

www.vrolijkheid.nl

NEAG

NEAG Alternatives to Violence is a network of individuals and partner organisations, interested in conflict management and transformation. It aims to contribute to the prevention and reduction of the use of violence. Together the parties in the network try to bring about fundamental cultural change, referring to the UN Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. MwB participates with NEAG in peace conferences, promoting the use of music in building a culture of peace.

www.neag.nl

IKV

The IKV (Inter Church Peace Council) is engaged in matters of war and peace on behalf of the churches in the Netherlands. IKV investigates the possibilities for preventing or ending wars and achieving civil integration. IKV organizes projects and inspires the local society and the churches. IKV supports MwB’s joint project with Community Building Mitrovica.

www.ikv.nl

Pontanima Inter-Religious Choir, Bosnia-Herzegovina

The Pontanima Choir and Chamber Orchestra is a project of Oci-u-Oci (Face-to-Face) Interreligious Service in Sarajevo. Founded in 1996, Pontanima's mission is to bring together people who love music and want to use the spiritual power of music to reconcile the peoples of Bosnia. The choir includes members from all ethnic groups in Bosnia, as well as from other countries around the world. Their repertoire includes music from the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant Muslim, and Jewish traditions, as well as songs from places far beyond the Balkans. MwB and Pontanima have worked together on numerous projects. Pontanima is a participating member of Muzičari bez Granica (MwB Bosnia-Herzegovina).

www.crucibleofwar.com/pontanima.htm

People Building Peace

In July 2005 NGOs from all over the world presented their Global Action Agenda for the Prevention of Armed Conflict to the United Nations. All those more than 800 organizations, including MwB, are working together in a global partnership aimed at the implementation of the Global Action Agenda. MwB is also part of 'People Building Peace Netherlands', a coalition of over 40 NGOs with an ambitious program to bring about a culture of peace and nonviolence, in the Netherlands and elsewhere.

www.peoplebuildingpeace.nl

CRY! Uganda

CRY! Uganda uses music and theater in its approaches to youth in the war-ravaged northern provinces of Uganda. Since contacts were initiated, Musicians without Borders has provided CRY! Uganda with instruments for young musicians and CRY! has sent representatives to MwB conferences. Two Ugandan musical ensembles playing for peace and reconciliation now identify themselves as Musicians without Borders groups.