”Sustainable reconciliation”, a form of international aid relief program, has been developed and constructed to help populations overcome war trauma, using different activities within art, entertainment and sports.  Theorists claim that if conducted properly, activities such as these, should lead to good social capital, causing higher levels of culture tolerance, gender equality and creativity, as well as better health and life satisfaction. This study has examined how the non-governmental organization, the Cross Cultural Project Association’s relief program, the Open Fun Football Schools has affected its participants in Belgrade, Serbia. A quantitative analysis has been conducted through the means of a multi question survey, to see if certain variables are correlated with the projects influence, “OFFS social capital”. According to the results, the activities did have positive effects on education, culture tolerance, gender equality, creativity, heath and life satisfaction. In addition the social capital influenced by the activities was found to be dependent on participants’ level of culture tolerance, and vice versa. The project is found to set the foundation for good social networking possibilities and create good social capital, all great aspects for the purpose of peace building.

Background: There is a newly founded national sports education program. This newly founded national sports program comprises of several different sports of which football is one of them. Before a football player can reach the European- or national elite the player usually is first developed in clubs and their respective academies where a lot of time is spent on fine tuning the players’ individual skillsets. The main goal for the NIU program is to develop future elite athletes to different sports. When it comes to football, the Swedish Football Association and the Swedish school board have together developed a study plan which will serve as a guideline for the NIU-football classes in Sweden. Because of this, it is interesting to get a further insight in the training setup of the youth academies and the involved upper secondary schools. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine football schools and their cooperation with football academies. The purpose is also to examine the potential goals that the different schools have with the academies. Methodology: This thesis has a qualitative approach with the authors gathering data with the help of interviews with members of the respective schools and football academies. A document study has also been done in order to further strengthen the empiric data. Result: The cooperation between school and academy is incredibly thorough. The academies are in charge of the NIU training-sessions and decide what to train according to their own preferences and goals but stay within the schoolboards theoretic guidelines.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCJS.pdf: 1078710 bytes, checksum: cf0aad9df7f76352d7dcafaea9f76c1c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-04-18 / Our aim is to investigate the complex process of learning football in Brazil. The focus of our analysis will be an average size city in São Paulo countryside. Usually, this learning process is related to essential factors which are linked to the representations of playing typically brazilian football, that means a natural gift. Which is completely different from the process that is symbolically and materially built. We will focus our discussion in the phenomenon of the football schools , both the public and the private ones, as an example of co-participation in this process. The origin of these football schools in the seventies and eighties brought different conceptions about the way of playing, learning and representing football in the country. On the other hand, it increased the investments in social policies of leisure related to the youth. While we tried to understand this process, making use of theoretical instruments of Social Science, we could comprehend an important part of the sport sociability spread in some brazilian urban centers. / Nesta dissertação procuramos investigar o complexo processo de aprendizagem do futebol no Brasil, focando uma cidade média do interior de São Paulo. Geralmente, tal processo é atribuído aos fatores mais essencializados que permeiam as representações do jogar à brasileira (dom, jeito inato), distanciando a apreensão do fenômeno como uma construção simbólica e material essencialmente constitutivas. Procuraremos retomar essa discussão, tendo como recorte empírico o fenômeno emergente das chamadas "escolinhas de futebol" (públicas e privadas) como co-partícipes desse processo. Por um lado, o surgimento dessas escolinhas , nas décadas de 70 e 80, trouxe à tona a contraposição entre diferentes concepções sobre as formas do jogar, aprender e representar o futebol no país e, por outro lado, fomentou os investimentos de políticas sociais de lazer mais voltadas à juventude. Compreender esse processo é possibilitar, a partir do instrumental teórico e metodológico das Ciências Sociais, a apreensão de uma importante faceta da sociabilidade esportiva disseminada em alguns centros urbanos brasileiros.