ABSTRACT
In this second case study we recount how the learning gleaned from the SDP (Sport, Development and Peace) work undertaken in Northern Ireland was transferred to and transplanted in the even more complex and challenging settings of selected countries in the Middle East, including Israel, Jordan and Palestine, the main focus being on work undertaken in Israel. After presenting an analysis of the transcending socio-political context we show how the praxis-based F4P (Football 4 Peace) model was further developed, emphasising the emergence of a distinctive F4P values-based coaching/teaching methodology that became inscribed in a series of manuals, summaries and examples of which can be found in the appendices. We also show how through our work in Israel the F4P locus has shifted from top-down project delivery to the bottom-up training of local community volunteers to the extent that eventually we were confidently able to hand over the responsibility for programme implementation and delivery to the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport and their F4P-trained community-sport supervisors.
