Appendix 6 - International Music Council

peace building. The tour includes, amongst others, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Honduras, and
Guinea.
http://www.iearnsierraleone.org/pages/partner/partnerships.html
LIVE 8, G8 NATIONS AND SOUTH AFRICA
Live 8 took place in July 2005, it was a series of benefit concerts, re-using the concept of
"Live Aid" in 1985. The concerts took place in the G8 nations and South Africa. The shows
aimed to put pressure on world leaders and politicians to drop the debts of the world's
poorest nations, negotiate fairer trade rules in the interest of poorer countries, and increase
and improve aid. They were running parallel with the Make Poverty
History campaign in
the UK and timed to precede the G8 Conference and Summit held at the Gleneagles Hotel
in Perthshire, Scotland from July 6-8, 2005. More than 1,000 musicians performed at the
concerts, which were broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
There were ten simultaneous concerts held on 2 July and one on 6 July.
http://www.live8live.com/
3 The links between musical diversity and the
promotion of peace
GENERAL
As the following examples from contemporary Europe show, music can, of course, be
associated with both: peace and war, social harmony and social disharmony.
For example,
the Ukrainian Orange Revolution was associated with music, but the opposite side, the
party of Janukovich, employed music as well. Musical diversity (in all our definitions) in
contrast to music in general, however, tends to be associated with the promotion of peace
and social harmony everywhere in Europe. Apart from the projects mentioned below there
are many similar projects which we do not present here. Our focus lies on projects, because
here, the association
with peace and war, harmony and disharmony is particularly evident.
This link between the two spheres becomes most obvious in projects
aiming at the
integration of people which have been or still are in a conflict situation, such as in former
Yugoslavia or in the case of Israel/Palestine. Many
projects of this kind are brought into life
not by the government, but by NGOs, associations and other private organizations.
There is a transitory zone between projects aiming to reduce social disharmony and projects
seeking to fight poverty. Therefore, there might be some overlappings with section 2. As
well, there is a certain correlation of this section with section 5, which deals with the
promotion of non-pluralistic musical identities.
Albania
In 1997 with the collapse of the pyramid scheme many Albanians lost their savings,
economy collapsed and riots broke out. Some 2000 people died. The situation
was out of
control and close to a civil war. An interviewee recalled a scene where music served as a
symbol for peace and marked
the beginning of normality after the riots had ended. In Vlorë,
a city in the south of Albania, and at that time practically a ghost town, normal people of
different backgrounds (policemen, a shepherd etc.)
joined to perform a concert. The fact,
that a concert was held, symbolized
the end of the riots for the population of Vlorë. It was a
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