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Titre : Social development, peacebuilding and democratization through community-based sport : Perspectives of Global South facilitators in rural Namibia and South Africa

Auteur : Urbancic, Tanya.

Etablissement de soutenance : University of Toronto

Grade : Master of Arts (MA) 2016

Résumé
Sport can be an important tool to facilitate learning for transformative social development, as a catalyst for development and peace in post-conflict contexts. This research involves semi-structured interviews regarding the first-hand accounts and perspectives, in relation to facilitation of sport activities for social development, of local volunteer trained facilitators, working in two sport for development and peace projects in South Africa and Namibia. A review of theory and research literature on democratic citizenship and peacebuilding provides a context for hearing and understanding the facilitators’ voices. This thesis shows what selected facilitators experienced and learned through participation in these community based projects, and situates their perspectives on how their sport for development and peace projects facilitated global and local belonging, democratic citizenship engagement, and peacebuilding. These counternarratives based on lived experience contribute to critical anti-colonial approaches to understanding sport for development and peace in rural Southern Africa.

Mots Clés : Sport for development and peace, citizenship, mobility, community development, South Africa, Namibia, rural, anti-colonial, international development, democratization

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