CMC

The CMC explores the various roles that music and the arts play in reflecting, representing, commenting on and commemorating conflict. It also explores music in conflict situations, and in the contexts of conflict resolution, resilience, diplomacy and peace building.

The CMC’s collaborations are interdisciplinary and involve the active participation of writers, cultural and economic historians and literary theorists, ethnomusicologists, music education experts and psychologists.

The Centre’s Research

The CMC is focused primarily on the following themes:

• Creative practice and conflict
• Music in war and peace
• Nationalism and transnationalism
• Music, politics and international diplomacy
• Commemoration
• Trauma and healing

The CMC addresses these themes from a variety of complementary approaches, such as creative practice in composition and performance, cultural and political history, critical theory and analysis.