Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Playing with the Enemy

ISBN-13: 9780415532686 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 192 str.

John Sugden

Opis

Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this keynote study, John Sugden draws on a lifetime s experience of working in sport in divided communities, as both researcher and organiser/activist, to develop a definitive and distinctive methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport. The book is centred on three regions of the world in which sport has been a prominent element of social deconstruction and reconstruction: Northern Ireland, and the author s experiences of using football as an anti-sectarian intervention for young Protestants and Catholics; Israel/Palestine and the Football for Peace project, a grassroots, sport based, co-existence programme that focuses on improving intergroup relations between disparate communities; and South Africa, where sport has played a central role for decades in maintaining and also repairing social division. Drawing on first hand experiences, as well as a wealth of primary and secondary data, the author charts the rise of the contemporary Sport for International Development and Peace (SIDP) movement and outlines an important new theoretical and practice-based framework for understanding, researching, and doing effective work in, the SIDP sector. Sport, Peace and Conflict Resolution is essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport development, international development, peace studies or conflict resolution. "

Recenzje

"Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies is a testament to the longevity and far-reaching capacity of Sugden in the SDP movement. With the use of storytelling and first-hand accounts, Sugden and Tomlinson have created an accessible text, which engages with the ongoing arguments and theoretical discussions most prominent within SDP. By choosing to provide solutions alongside their critiques, the authors have created a text on sport for peace that is valuable to practitioners, researchers and academics." – Catherine Houston, University of Toronto, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

Spis treści

Foreword  1. The Question?  2. SDP in Never-Never Land: Sport and Peace-Building in Northern Ireland  3. SDP in the Promised Land: Sport and Peace-Building in Israel  4. SDP Over the Rainbow: Sport and Peace-Building in South Africa  5. Can Sport Save the World? SDP in Cloud Cuckoo Land  6. SDP Back Down to Earth: Epistemological Foundations of Critical Pragmatism  7. Critical Pro-Activism and the Ripple Effect  Appendix: Materials Underpinning the Football for Peace (F4P) Project