While working with Right to Play (www.righttoplay.com) in Tamale I was able to observe one of their certifications for their coaches. During my interviews with staff before I came to Ghana and once in Accra, I had been told about their process of training coaches and certifying them. The coaches are trained in the Right to Play curriculum and after they have been successfully implementing it for a period of time they will get certified by Right to…

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 would like to begin by apologizing for a lack of posts the past two weeks. I have been without internet for the majority of it and have found it hard to post a blog. A lot has happened with my research over the past 10 days and I am excited to share it. Again, I am doing research on behalf of Generations for Peace (www.generationsforpeace.org) and Georgetown University (www.georgetown.edu) to look at…

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Resource Guide on Sport and Development / Sport and Peace

This short guide will provide some recommendations for key resources in the sport and development and sport and peace fields. Special thanks to Meeghan Zahorsky, The H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Generations for Peace Graduate Scholar Recipient in the CR program at Georgetown University for her input on this guide. Check out her summer sport and peace…

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This winter marks the end of my second term as a PeaceMover in Washington, DC. I love to watch as students reach their own “breakthrough moments” in Dance 4 Peace. Seeing them renews my energy. It’s thrilling to see my students grasp ideas such as diversity, empathy, or self-control and express it in their own way.  

 

Dance 4 Peace is a global nonprofit that teaches peace-building through dance and creative movement. As a master’s student in Conflict Resolution and a…

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Israeli MP drafts legislation obliging players to recognize Israel as a Jewish state

By James M. Dorsey

Proposed legislation by extreme nationalist Israeli parliamentarian Michael Ben-Ari that would require members of Israeli national sport teams to sing the national anthem and recognise Israel as a Jewish state threatens to weaken the country’s…

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Palestine unveils sports plan in effort to further state- and nationhood



By James M. Dorsey



Palestine is scoring points on and off the soccer pitch as it seeks to employ sports to further its bid for statehood, ensure international support in its struggle against the debilitating effects of Israeli occupation and initiate a social revolution at home.



The Palestinian effort kicked into high gear this month with the unveiling of an ambitious ten-year plan backed… Continue

The Georgetown University and Generations For Peace Summer Research Fellows have all returned to DC after three months in the field. As we begin to digest our research and experiences, we wanted to share a piece of our journey with you.

What was the most surprising thing you found?

From Amanda Munroe: 

Connection! I was surprised (and encouraged!) to find out how well the organizations and the academics I was interviewing were…

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We are looking for a few "go-to"  articles or resources on the differences between integration and assimilation.

 

Context:  Through the use of sport, recreation and physical activity, we are working with a group of Iraqi refugees living in a small city in the southern part of the US.  Our research is focused on how sport, service-learning and university-community partnerships can promote social…

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This week in Germany, I am visiting sites and interviewing practitioners with the Germany-wise program, “Integration through Sport” (in German, “Integration durch Sport”). IdS, which is financed by the German government, administered via the German Olympic committee and implemented locally through youth programs and sport clubs, is a wonderful example of the intersection between sport and conflict resolution.



Today I was privileged to visit the state headquarters of IdS in the German… Continue

Prologue to Research



As we all set out on our field research to diverse corners of the globe, I have been thinking about what aspects I am drawn to and what, on an individual level, I hope to observe over the course of my journey.



Two things have stood out to me in my preparations - partnerships and measurement. 



On partnerships, I owe this project and opportunity through Generations For Peace's partnership with Georgetown and their generosity. This type of… Continue