Musicians Without Borders

2026 is the first of three years envisioned in Musicians Without Borders’ current long-term Strategic Plan. In our 2026 Annual Plan, we lay out our specific plans for the first of three years, to achieve the following objectives:

1.Contribute to just, inclusive, peaceful societies: strengthening our long-term programs around the world, building alternatives to war and exclusion with musicians and partner organizations;

2.Build networks of changemakers: expanding our connections, creating new alliances within both the arts and peace and social change sectors;

3.Change the narrative: pushing back, with alternatives to racist, exclusionary, war-mongering rhetoric, telling the stories of how the arts build community and lead to nonviolent social change;

4.Build a movement of solidarity: expanding our base, including new musicians, activists, and supporters, understanding that so many people around the world are looking for reasons to hope and places to act.

Behind these plans is our shared determination to survive and even to grow— whether or not in size or budget, certainly in presence, in clarity of voice, and in effectively playing our part in resisting violence, domination and war. We base our practical planning on our understanding of music’s power to build radical empathy and our years of experience in translating this power into positive, longterm social change for real people.

If our programs cannot stop war, for participants, they are life-changing. And when lives change, communities change, societies change. We build radical empathy through collaborations that transcend borders and defy dehumanization through the shared human language of music.

Read our full Annual Plan here: https://www.musicianswithoutborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-Annual-Plan-1-1-1.pdf

Read our 2025 Impact Report here: https://www.musicianswithoutborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Gewaarmerkt-jaarverslag-MWB-2024.pdf