Resurrection
It's time to resurrect the We Must Be The Change blog ... I'll try to give weekly updates on the blog. Until then, here's what I've been up to this summer.
I spent the summer working on a project called Playing for Peace. Founded by the Tuohey brothers in 2001, PFP's goal is to bridge divides in polarized communities through the game of basketball. PFP started work in Northern Ireland and South Africa in 2001, then launched a program in Israel in 2005. Since its inception, PFP has coached 12,000 10- to 14-year-old Catholic and Protestant children in integrated settings in Northern Ireland, and taught basketball to 25,000 children in Durban, South Africa. In Northern Ireland and South Africa, basketball training is supplemented with programs that promote tolerance, ethnic sensitivity and community leadership training.
Here's an article I wrote for ESPN's E-Ticket called Hooping With The Enemy. If you look in the top right hand corner under the article banner you'll also find a 6 minute video shot by ABC news on my trip to the Middle East. Just click play.
Also, there's an adapted excerpt of a forthcoming academic journal article I've written on the subject called Peace and Hoops: Basketball as a Role Player in Sustainable Peacebuilding. It will appear in the Willamette Law Review, volume 42, issue 4 2006 this fall.
I spent the summer working on a project called Playing for Peace. Founded by the Tuohey brothers in 2001, PFP's goal is to bridge divides in polarized communities through the game of basketball. PFP started work in Northern Ireland and South Africa in 2001, then launched a program in Israel in 2005. Since its inception, PFP has coached 12,000 10- to 14-year-old Catholic and Protestant children in integrated settings in Northern Ireland, and taught basketball to 25,000 children in Durban, South Africa. In Northern Ireland and South Africa, basketball training is supplemented with programs that promote tolerance, ethnic sensitivity and community leadership training.
Here's an article I wrote for ESPN's E-Ticket called Hooping With The Enemy. If you look in the top right hand corner under the article banner you'll also find a 6 minute video shot by ABC news on my trip to the Middle East. Just click play.
Also, there's an adapted excerpt of a forthcoming academic journal article I've written on the subject called Peace and Hoops: Basketball as a Role Player in Sustainable Peacebuilding. It will appear in the Willamette Law Review, volume 42, issue 4 2006 this fall.
