That summer, they visited Kosovo refugees in the Netherlands, singing and playing songs people knew and loved, making music with the children, providing musicians who had lost their instruments with replacements.
Eventually, the organization moved its focus towards training local people to lead music workshops, gradually expanding to new regions.
[2] MWB has collaborated with musicians and human rights organizations in the Balkans, sending groups of singers and players to perform in festivals, and offering music and dance workshops in schools, cultural centers and refugee camps in Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia.
As the network grew, MWB organized conferences in Sarajevo and in Utrecht, bringing musicians from eastern and western Europe, the Middle East and Cyprus together to explore their common desire to use their music for peace and social change.
In 2017, a new collaboration brought MWB to El Salvador to work with musicians and educators to help protect children from violence in partnership with UNICEF.
Musicians Without Borders offers music-based activities to thousands of marginalized young people in towns and refugee camps located in the West Bank, Palestine, who lack other social or cultural opportunities.
The Music Bridge program is run in cooperation with Culturlann Ui Chanain, an Irish language, arts and cultural organization in Derry.
The project also builds the capacity of local organizations to facilitate cross-community work, making a substantive contribution towards peace-building and reconciliation efforts in the region.
Musicians Without Borders has partnered with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education of El Salvador, as part of a national program to build capacities for teachers in peacebuilding.
Researchers who have studied MWB's work have implied that such intercultural creative music practices can be adapted to further social justice engagement.