Youth and Sport for Development The Seduction of Football in Liberia
Processes of development concerning reconciliation, rehabilitation and peace-building have become a central theme for global organizations tasked with intervening in broken and divided societies after violent conflicts. What can reunite populations divide
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Youth and Sport for Development
Holly Collison
Youth and Sport for Development The Seduction of Football in Liberia
Holly Collison School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences Loughborough University Leicestershire, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-52468-3 ISBN 978-1-137-52470-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52470-6
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Source: The map was created by Dr Holly Collison and Dr Will Rollason.
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Preface
This book considers the concept of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in post-conflict Liberia. The topic of reconciliation, rehabilitation and peace-building has become a central theme for global organisations tasked with intervening in broken and divided societies after violent conflicts. The question for some time has been this: What can reunite populations divided by war and violence whilst attempting to build a peaceful civil society? Youth in particular have been consistently identified by development agencies as being either potentially volatile or, in contrast, vulnerable during and after conflict (World Youth Report 2005). SDP has become fashionable within development agendas, in what Kidd (2008) termed as a ‘new social movement’, yet it remains an aspirational image, rather than a tested method of reintegration and youth development in post-conflict environments. My intention in this book is to question the assumptions of SDP rhetoric and programmes, and to trace the effects of football—the favoured vehicle of SDP—for youth i
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