The ARI Institute At ICSSPE’s Conference On Sport
The ARI Institute participated in ICSSPE’s International Conference on Sport for Development and Peace, which took place at the Wingate Institute in Israel with participants from 32 countries, including a delegation of 30 from Jordan. The theme was Sport as a Mediator between Cultures.
ARI Executive Board Member Dr. Gilad Shadmon and Director of Special Projects & Educational Research Dr. Eli Vinokur spoke with Israel’s Minister of Culture & Sport Limor Livnat, UNESCO, and United Nations representatives, and representatives of European Governments.
The ARI Institute’s presentation was well received: KIDS BONDING THROUGH SPORTS GAMES (presentation)
1) Children learn through games more than any other means.
2) The games must connect the kids and not cause divisions.
3) Competitiveness must be against the clock or other achievements, but not one against the other.
4) Winning is only together and not on one’s own. Unity that is achieved is the real prize!
5) Change the rules of conventional games to make them about unity and bonding. For example, our children changed the rules of soccer:
a) A child that scores two goals switches to the other team.
b) You cannot score until you have passed the ball three times.
c) Every fifteen minutes one or two players switch sides.
6) The purpose of the sports games is to increase the kids’ bonding and unity, as well as inter-dependence.
Dr. Gilad Shadmon with Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace Mr. Wilfried Lemke.
Dr. Eli Vinokur with Ms. Elizabeth Longworth, Deputy Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO.
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And if professional sports caught on to this we would see an elimination of such concepts as free agency, wage discrepancy, and certain teams always winning by being in bigger markets. Sports would be fair and communal! Instead of seeing players glaring and staring each other down they would be laughing and playing together as friends. So it isn’t sports that is wrong but the goal of sports: to win for oneself or one’s team over another.
To play sports for greater unity to be achieved? Now that’s a goal!