by Peace and Sport | May 28, 2017 | Watch
In social contexts with a history of conflict, sport for community development transcends the idea of a healthy alternative to use spare time and becomes a tool to develop skills among the community to respond assertively to social threats. Besides, sports favor...
by Peace and Sport | May 21, 2017 | Watch
As an athlete and an artist, I struggled for years to balance both sport and art in my life. But on my journey to becoming an Olympic athlete and then an Olympic artist, I realized that these two, seemingly different subjects, aren’t different at all, in fact they are...
by Peace and Sport | May 17, 2017 | Watch
In a recent skype conversation with Nicolai Zeltinger, the Head Coach of the German male wheelchair basketball team and the Coach of the RSV Lahn-Dill, the German, we learned how big is wheelchair basketball in Germany: “Here people, when say, they are going to watch...
by Peace and Sport | May 7, 2017 | Watch
Sports promotes cooperation, builds a common identity, and provides an overarching language to communities in conflict. I learned it first hand, because tennis changed my life. Growing up as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, I struggled with an identity crisis, feeling...
by Peace and Sport | May 1, 2017 | Watch
At the beginning of April, I participated in the Harvard and MIT Brazil Conference, an event organized by students at these institutions with the mission of bringing together brilliant minds and key influencers in various fields to discuss Brazil’s social, economic,...
by Peace and Sport | Apr 23, 2017 | Watch
As an academic, practitioners want to understand my knowledge, and I want to understand their experience. Combining knowledge and experience can only promote the cause of peace through sport. However, many times it’s like two different worlds—one of practitioners and...