Abstract
Football for Peace aims to use values-based football coaching to build bridges between neighbouring Jewish and Arab towns and villages in Israel. Its fourfold aims are to: provide opportunities for social contact across community boundaries; promote mutual understanding; engender in participants a desire for and commitment to peaceful coexistence; and enhance soccer skills and technical knowledge. The coaching model used is underpinned by four values: equity and inclusion; trust; respect; and responsibility. Set against these aims and values, this article provides a critical evaluation of the project, which took place in 2005. Because it proved to be especially problematic, particular focus is given to issues surrounding the inclusion of girls in the project. Despite some such issues and controversies, the article concludes that Football for Peace is broadly successful and a positive example of sporting intervention in a context of fractured community relations.
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