Musicking, Consciousness, and Peacebuilding
Journal of Consciousness Studies April 1, 2026 Olivier Urbain, Michael Golden
In this article, we engage three fields of study — peacebuilding, musicking, and consciousness — in order to examine potential contributions of these diverse disciplinary perspectives, considered in conjunction, to our understanding of how musicking might contribute to peacebuilding. We first introduce a new, inclusive theory of peacebuilding which links broader concepts from peace studies to...