By Morgen Makombo Sikwila
Music contains huge potential of contribution to peace building, such as removal of direct and indirect violence, igniting peacefully among communities.
Originality or value peace building should not remain as a theoretical idea, as it is argued that it is useful to implement with daily life. Music is a language of communication which can remove hostility. While potentially a good tool for constructing harmony, music can, however also result in deleterious effects, if it is misused.
Music brings people together and makes them feel greater than the sum of their parts. Music can empower and inspire people to work together to accomplish goals and achieve visions unimaginable by individuals acting alone. Music can be used in a number of ways to prevent conflicts and promote peace.
Music can open dialogue between countries and promote peace between countries that have previously been at war. Music ensembles such as orchestras or cholales, composed of musicians or vocalists from countries in conflict with each other-such as the orchestra of for instance Israelis and Palestinians – can promote peace and understanding among people and nations.
Songs have the lower to move people, more than words alone. Teaching people songs and singing them together can have people change emotionally, socially and political mindsets. The power of singing move people to help them about progressive social change.
Music has the advantage of mass appeal in its ability to transport an audience into a variety of emotional states. Singers and musicians are mirrors that reflect the society. Songs reflect (changing) public opinions and offer windows into social opinions held or articulated in the past.
Music is a power that directly reaches the soul of the individual; it becomes a message that goes from heart to heart: from the heart of the composer that impact the heart of the other person.
That power, working along with the word that is emitted, is very strong and influences individuals, societies and governments; and it can be used to educate, teach and transmit values that benefit the social, intellectual, moral and spiritual development of an individual.
If peace education is combined with positive music, the teaching goes directly to the heart of the person targeted and it will produce good results; because after it enters the soul, it will grow in the interior of the person, producing actions according to the nature (positive or negative) of the message that has been planted.
Music has a big influence in the behaviour of the human being: it strengthens souls; it also affects bodies, stimulates intelligence and creativity and it influences the perception people have for the world.
Music is a power that influences and promotes great movements in the world, that can reinforce moral, ethical and spiritual values in the person, with either negative or positive objectives for the human family. With music, peace is possible.
Morgen Makombo Sikwila
MSc Peace and Governance
BSc Counselling
Diploma in Environmental Health Health
Certificate in Marketing Management
Morgensikwilam@gmail.com 0772823282
