Cross Cultures' are in particular known for our programmes: Open Fun Football Schools  (OFFS), and Streetsport & Community Clubs, which are to be considered two unconventionel reconciliation projects focusing on dialogue and confidence-building meassures.

 

Both projects are building on the experience of how wars and ethnic conflics affects people and their possibilities of returning to a daily life in post conflict areas.

 

Although the wars may officially have come to an end many years ago, although the physical frontlines and checkpoints are gone, and although the attention of the media has changed to new conflicts elsewhere, still major tasks remain to stabilize the countries and the region. Mistrust, fear, hatred and the former frontlines still linger inside people and ethnically based parallel structures in local communities are still some of the main challenges to overcome.

 

In this kind of post conflict setting we are specialised in using: 

 

a) our specific pedagogical "Fun-Football-Concept" as tool to rally children and adults living in divided communities around an activty of common interest ('bridging'), and

 

b) our stakeholder/civil society approach as tools to build a sustainable structures in civil society, where people of different backgrounds can meet and interact ('bonding') while discussing: children - welfare - future.