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Video Launch for Nous Sommes Ensemble - a song for peace

Friends, nous sommes ensemble – we are together – for peace! I produced this song in Goma, DRC, where peace is desperately needed. I wrote it in minutes, on a short flight because over 100 rebel groups made road travel unsafe. Once we landed, rebel fighting prevented us from completing our humanitarian missions to help internally displaced people fleeing conflict. We passed deserted homes and farms, checkpoints and armed guards, had constant radio contact with the security team, but couldn't work.

Nous Sommes Ensemble - Producing a Song for Peace

It was the most fun and fulfilling thing I accomplished in the Congo – producing my first song for peace. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a French-speaking country where I worked for six months, the most common phrase was "nous sommes ensemble" – "we are together." And we are. We share this world, and will enjoy peace and prosperity together or suffer together – the choice is ours. Although the effects are so disproportionate that those of us in the north may believe all is well, eventually pollution, poverty and conflict will touch us all, wherever we live.

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