Dialect 2 News
Local workshop @Coni Compania
On the 10th of September, a local workshop was organized by ActionAid Italia at the headquarters of Coni Campania, the Italian national Olympic Committee.
The workshop was attended by several social organizations, sports associations, football academies, representatives of political and sports institutions. The goal was to identify anti-radicalization practices and media literacy activities (inspired by the DIALECT2 model) to be integrated into football academies’ work, to strengthen the critical thinking of young players and citizens. The aim of the whole path is to enhance young people’s resilience against extremist and violent opinions through football and sports, involving them in the co-design of action plans adapted to the local context.
The discussion was structured through a few guided questions, on topics such as the access to sports and the effective enjoyment of the right to sports for all citizens, the best sport practices with inclusive methodologies, the role of the media in constructing counter-narratives to stereotypes in sports.
After several hours of presentations, reflections, debates and discussions, the workshop came up with some recommendations on these three topics, which have been shared with the rest of the European partnership at the workshop in Athens the 16th of September.
A very important contribution to the discussion was given by the young boys and girls participating in the project, as well as the mediators, who interacted as equals with representatives of political and sporting institutions during the workshop, not only bringing forward the concrete demands that emerged during the project, but also displaying an awareness of the relationship between sport and the improvement of social and collective life, at three hundred and sixty degrees, which at times appeared greater than that of their adult ‘counterparts’. Probably, another result of the reflection process that the DIALECT2 project has stimulated, and which could potentially extend beyond its borders.
