The contribution of sport within the process - International Platform ...

CHAPTER 4: CASE STUDY - THE IMPACT OF SPORT
INTERVENTIONS IN RIFT VALLEY-KENYA, AFTER
POST ELECTION VIOLENCE _____________________ 34
4.1 KENYA PROFILE – AT A GLANCE___________________________________________ 34
POST ELECTION VIOLENCE OVERVIEW _______________________________________ 35
4.1.1 WAKI REPORT: NEED OF JUSTICE ________________________________________________ 37
4.1.2 ROOT OF THE PROBLEM ________________________________________________________ 38
4.1.3 PRECEDENTS FOR UNREST ______________________________________________________ 40
4.1.4 RESETTLEMENT AND RECONCILIATION__________________________________________ 41
4.2 SPORT FOR TRAUMA HEALING, RECONCILIATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE -
EXPERIENCE FROM THE FIELD _______________________________________________ 43
4.2.1 SINGLE EVENTS ________________________________________________________________ 44
4.2.2 SPORT LEAGUES OR GAMES AS SINGLE PROJECT OF A PROGRAM __________________ 46
4.2.3 SPORT BASED PROJECTS ________________________________________________________ 47
4.2.4 SPORT ACTIVITIES AS PART OF A WIDER PROJECT ________________________________ 51
4.3 RESEARCH PROJECTS _____________________________________________________ 51
4.3.1 Amani cup ______________________________________________________________________ 51
4.3.2 Sport activities in Child Friendly Space (Cfs) – An early evaluation _________________________ 53
CONCLUSION ___________________________________ 61
BIBLIOGRAPHY _________________________________ 63
APPENDICES____________________________________ 66
APPENDIX 1 - SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE SPORT FOR PEACE AND
RECONCILIATION ____________________________________________________________ 66
APPENDIX 2 – Jordan D. Metzl, M.D “The Benefits of Youth Sports - The Young Athlete: A
Sports Doctor's Complete Guide for Parents” _______________________________________ 69
APPENDIX 3 - TIMEFRAME SPORT FOR PEACE PEACE MILESTONES ____________ 74
APPENDIX 4 - KEY DOCUMENTS OF INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK – readapted by
Sport for Development and Peace: Towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Report from the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace (2003). _ 79
TABLE OF FIGURES
Figure 1 - Conflict triangle .......................................................................................................5
Figure 2 - Violence triangle ......................................................................................................6
Figure 3 - Peace and conflict triangle: contribution of sport ....................................................13
Figure 4 – Report from the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on SDP...........................................13
Figure 5 - Nested paradigm of sport in reconciliation..............................................................27
Figure 6 - Kenya map .............................................................................................................34
Figure 7 - Ethnicity distribution..............................................................................................34
Figure 8 - Displacement and humanitarian response ...............................................................35
Figure 9 - Chronology of fire location in Rift Valley Province................................................39
Figure 10 – Graph “Gender distribution” ................................................................................56
Figure 11 – Graph “Why don’t you practice sport more often?”..............................................56
Figure 12 - Graph “What do you do in your free time”...........................................................57
Figure 13 - Graph "How do you feel since you started taking part in sport activities?"............58
Figure 14 - Graph "I feel more positive about my future"........................................................58
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Figure 15 - Graph "At times I thinkI'm not good at all"...........................................................58
Figure 16 –Graph “How your partecipation in sport activities modified your relationship with
friends, family and community?” ....................................................................................59
Figure 17 – Graph “What are you learning by doing sport?” ...................................................60
Figure 18 – Graph “I can hae new friends regardless where they are form”.............................60
Table 1 – Contribution of sport in 3R......................................................................................10
Table 2 – Kenya profile ..........................................................................................................34
Table 3 – IDP’s figures...........................................................................................................36
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