Football 4 Peace International

F4P Training Camp in Korea

The second F4P Korea Training Camp at Seoul National University Korea, took place between 22 and 25 July in partnership with Korean Sharing Movement (KSM).

F4P International Training Camp 2016 – Applications Open!

Football 4 Peace are opening up the annual International Training Camp to individuals and organisations working in sport coaching, physical education and youth work and wish to develop co-existence programmes. The Training Camp will take place between 17 and 21 September at the University of Brighton Eastbourne and Falmer campuses. Please find the F4P ICE Application…

F4P International Training Camp in Northern Ireland

F4P has a long history of working in Ireland and Northern Ireland, where peace education is of vast importance due to the sectarian conflict between Irish and Northern Irish communities. In April 2016, F4P worked together with The Peace Link to deliver values-based and life skills coaching methodology to students, NGO and sport governing bodies representatives.

International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

F4P International celebrated the third consecutive International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) together with their international partners to celebrate the power of sport and raise awareness about the role of sport in building better society.F4P partners in Korea and Gambia have been raising the ‘white card’ as a call for peace. The initiative is…

Football can help refugees

Football can build support networks for refugees and help integrate them into communities, according to a University of Brighton academic.Dr Mark Doidge, Senior Research Fellow, School of Sport and Service Management, has been awarded almost £15,000 by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences to run two workshops under the title ‘Refugees Welcome:…

2016 Easter Challenge Camp 4th to 8th April

The University of Brighton will host the Easter Challenge Camp between the 4th and 8th April 2016, with participation of primary school students from Brighton and Eastbourne.

Professor to speak at discrimination in sport symposium

John Nauright, Professor of Sport & Leisure Management at the University of Management, will be a key speaker at the Adopting a Zero Tolerance Approach on Discrimination in Sport: Ensuring Equality Promoting Inclusion for All symposium. The event takes place on Tuesday 9 February 2016 in central London. Find out more and book your place.

FIFA scandal keeps John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson busy

John Sugden, Professor of the Sociology of Sport, at the School of Sport and Service Management, was inundated with media interviews earlier this week. This followed suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s suggestions that an agreement had been made for Russia to host the World Cup 2018 before the official vote took place. On the day of…

‘Rugby World Cup: what good sports can teach the world about how to play fair’ in The Conversation

Graham Spacey, F4P International Partnership Manager and initiator of F4P programme Rugby 4 Peace, writes about lessons learnt about fair play from the Rugby World Cup for a well renowned discussion platform The Conversation. While the global sport, particularly football, seems to be going through the crisis of values and lack of fair-play, rugby has…

F4P volunteers at the Beyond Sports Awards

As an active NGO in the sport-for-development-and-peace sector (SDP), F4P International attended Beyond Sport Awards, annual global event organised by Beyond Sport bringing together stakeholders from global SDP arena. Beyond Sport is a global organisation that promotes, supports and celebrates the use of sport to address social issues in communities around the world, and Beyond Sports…