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Carndonagh CS - Football for Peace Ireland Programme 2010

Football4Peace 2010 - Photo Album

The Football4Peace Ireland Programme is a coaching programme that aims to develop community relations and personal values through the vehicle of football.

Football for Peace Ireland is a joint venture between the Irish Football Association, the Football Association of Ireland, and IDP (Inishowen Development Partnership), in the cross border regions of Limavady and Derry/Londonderry and Inishowen.

This programme is based on a very successful pilot, is financed through core funding of the International Fund For Ireland and its donor countries; USA, EU, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The programme aims to promote peace and reconciliation on a cross border and cross community basis. The target groups included Catholic and Protestant children living in Limavady and Inishowen. The project is inclusive of boys and girls with disabilities, able bodied youngsters, less advantaged children, ethnic and religious minorities who worked alongside each other as a team.

The Football 4 Peace programme has gained an international reputation with its ground-breaking work in using sport as a tool for developing conflict prevention and peaceful co-existence in the Middle East. It is a large scale, grass roots project which brings young Arab and Jewish people together to experience a values-based football programme in Israel. The University of Brighton and the British Council have been instrumental in taking the Football4Peace programme through its development. This coaching manual is an adapted version of the one used with great success in Israel and has been devised at the University of Brighton.

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