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Moving toward trust and partnership: an example of sport-related community-based participatory action research with Aboriginal people and mainstream academics
Robert J. Schinke, Kerry R. McGannon, Jack Watson, Rebecca BusanichThe purpose of this paper is to critically examine the authors own assumptions made as academics using two examples from a research project with an Aboriginal community. The first…
Cricket, violence and social conflict: an Eliasian examination
Dominic Malcolm– The purpose of this paper is to examine the claims made for the potential of sports such as cricket to reduce social conflict and engender peace.
Sport, the Northern Ireland peace process, and the politics of identity
Alan BairnerThe purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement (GFA) through the lens of sport, particularly football, and with reference…
Building from Beslan: examining an NGO community sport initiative in Russia and its capacity to promote peace amongst victims of terrorism
Joel RookwoodPeace promotion can include culturally relevant community programming. Some agencies have used sports such as football, for example, as a vehicle for fostering social development…
The effects of three Israeli sports programs on attitudes of Arabs and Jews toward one another
Yair Galily, Michael J. Leitner, Pini Shimion– The purpose of this paper is to fill in a gap in the research literature on the subject of evaluation of coexistence programs.
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1759-6599Online date, start – end:
2009Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Associate Prof Philip Birch