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05. Sports Events and Community Conflict
Jessie Feinstein, Leap: Confronting Conflict
Sports events can be used to help overcome community conflict and tension. Leap will share their experience of work in this area, which includes a Sport Relief funded programme to overcome conflict. It will focus on factors to be considered when sports events are used to bring communities in conflict together and offer practical tools for planning these events.
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“Sport is not magic. It can bring communities together, but it can also be divisive, violent and reinforce prejudice. It’s important to have significant skills training as well.”
“If you’re working with groups of yong people in conflict with each other, the last thing to do is bring them together. You need to do a lot of work first.”
“There’s a fantasy that everyone will become friends when you bring conflicting groups together. Often, if you can get them to walk past each other on the street, that’s success.”
