Introduction

​The intent of our summits are to bring together national and international researchers, activists, and artists who currently focus on two major fields of interest – “Music and Peace” and “Business and Peace” – in a series of ground-breaking presentations, discussions, and performances. With two summits completed (2017, 2018), the project actively juxtaposes and cross-pollinates a wide range of intellectual and artistic practices in the belief that a coherent set of understandings can emerge on how the two disciplines interact with and co-inhabit their worlds. Invited participants are from a broad cross-section including those whose careers are centered on global studies, peace and peace building. Local, national, and international entities will be represented. 

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Publications through the College Music Symposium

The 2019 issue of College Music Symposium (Vol. 58, No. 3)  includes a number of articles from the 2017 Music-Business-Peace Summit.
 

• Link to all the articles: Volume 58, No. 3 - College Music Symposium

 
LIST OF ARTICLES, WTIH LINKS 
Published online: 30 November 2018

Preface

• General Editor’s Note: Special Issues Lisa A. Urkevich
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• Guest Editor Introduction: Music, Business and Peace, Special Issue 58.3 Ruth M. Stone

Articles

• Overview to Music, Business, and Peace Constance Cook Glen and Timothy L. Fort
  
  
• From Settler Colonialism to Standing Rock: Hearing Native Voices for Peace Nancy S. Love
  
  
• Introduction to Alexander Bernstein Interview: A Bernstein Revolution Constance Cook Glen
  
  
• Leonard Bernstein’s Legacy: An Interview with Alexander Bernstein Alexander Bernstein 
  
  
• Connecting Music to Ethics Kathleen M Higgins
  
  
• Empathy: A Global Imperative for Peace Carolyn Calloway-Thomas
  
  
• Nobel Reflections on Making Social Change: Interview with Jerry White Jerry White
  
  
• Business and Music in Peacebuilding Activities: Parallels and Paradoxes Olivier Urbain
  
  
• A Response to Olivier Urbain and an Exploration of How Music May Serve as a Nudge for More Ethical and Peaceful Business Behavior Timothy L. Fort

Technology and Online Resource Reviews

• VoiceThread: Online Learning Platform Eric Lindsay

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Cultural Diplomacy: The Linchpin of Public Diplomacy

​Authored in 2005 for the US Department of State by a group that included Dean Emeritus Charles H. Webb.  Others on the committee were Patricia de Stacy Harrison (Chair), Bob Babbage, Curtis S. Chin, T. Willard Fair, Christopher Merrill, Carl Schnee, F. William Smullen. 

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Cultural diplomacy is the linchpin of public diplomacy; for it is in cultural activities that a nation's idea of itself is best represented. And cultural diplomacy can enhance our national security in subtle, wide-ranging, and sustainable ways. Indeed history may record that America's cultural riches played no less a role than military action in shaping our international leadership, including the war on terror. For the values embedded in our artistic and intellectual traditions form a bulwark against the forces of darkness.

Enemies and Strangers to Friends: Drawing on Music to Foster Empathy

In this edition, Tim Fort interviews Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, Professor and Chair of African-American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University along with Constance Cook Glen, Senior Lecturer and Director of the General Studies Program at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and Alain Barker, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Music Entrepreneurship And Career Development Program at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. We explore how music can be a common touchstone and inspiration for empathy in today's divided and distanced world.