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We have put together some separate pages that present sport as an instrument for preventing violence within the scope of peace education.



 


Street football for peace
– how does it work? Going under the heading of „Fútbol por la Paz“, Jürgen Griesbeck successfully implemented a youth project in Medellin, Columbia. He returned to Germany in 2001 and today is the secretary of the "streetfootballworld" organization in Berlin. He's convinced that young people can use football to learn how to respect each other... [... more]
 




 


Midnight Games: Basketball for countering violence -
In order to counter the rising occurrence of crime and other youth problems in Glenarden, the Director of the municipal government decided to establish the "Midnight Basketball League" in 1986. The idea was to offer young people an alternative during the particularly problematic late-night hours as way of preventing them from hanging around and going off the rails.. [... more]
 

"Twic Olympics" - Olympic Games in war zones: "Sport for Peace and Development – A win-win for every child“ – this is the motto behind this unique Olympic Games concept. February 2004 represented the fourth time that youths in the Sudanese town of Pannyok had come together to compete in the "Twic Olympics" amid the turmoil of civil war in the country... [... more]

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This online service on the subject of political education was developed by agora-wissen, the Stuttgart-based Gesellschaft für Wissensvermittlung über neue Medien und politische Bildung (GbR) (Partnership for the Exchange of Information Using New Media and Political Education). Please contact us with your questions or comments. Translation from German into English by twigg's Übersetzung deutsch-englisch.