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Football 4 Peace Showing Racism the Red Card in Ireland

Between the 12 and 16 of June Laurence Curtis, a Football 4 Peace volunteer and sport coaching student at the School of Sport & Service Management, attended the ‘Show Racism The Red Card’ annual seminar in County Donegal, Ireland. Alongside fellow F4P coach Eoin McCafferty, Laurence presented the University of Brighton led programme to the…

2013 F4P v Homophobia, in support of the Justin Campaign

On the 1st of May, for the second year running, The University of Brighton hosted the F4P v Homophobia Festival in support of the Justin Campaign. Students volunteering for F4P ran the event, which followed the F4P festival format. Therefore, in addition to the match score, teams scored points through the extent to which the way…

2013 Football 4 Peace at Eastbourne Town Football Club

The collaboration of Football4peace and Eastbourne Town FC saw children from schools across the community come together at the University of Brighton for a free three day event run by students and staff. The F4P values based coaching methodology was applied. Children made friends from other schools and learnt, through taking part in the activities,…

President of Ireland visits Football 4 Peace

Football coaches from across the Irish divide had the chance to meet the President of the Republic of Ireland through a peace through sport initiative over the weekend. As part of his state visit to Northern Ireland, Michael D Higgins, President of the Republic of Ireland, met members of the Football 4 Peace (F4P) team…

Physical Education Students organise Student Leader Day

PGCE Trainee teachers of Physical Education from the Chelsea School of Sport facilitated a day of leadership training for 50 year 10 aspiring student leaders from Ratton Secondary School in Eastbourne on May 23rd. Pupils took part in a series of activities designed to build relationships, solve problems and promote decision-making. Examples included team building…

Football 4 Peace Director speaks at University of Texas

John Sugden, Professor of Sociology at the University of Brighton and Director of Football 4 Peace International, spoke about sport-related interventions that have contributed to peace processes across the world at the University of Texas at Austin. Click here for trailer. Click here for full presentation.