Sport has been proved as a fruitful field for building strong personal relations, sharing common goals, and collaboration. Thus, encouraging sports environments with appropriate coaching bases could effectively drive social cohesion, starting from the sports stakeholders and expanding to society more broadly. However, creating such a productive and open sports environment is often challenging. Chapter 10 reflects on the authors’ understanding of social cohesion and describes their own experience of how sport might act as an effective tool for social cohesion. The chapter highlights how diverse mixed group activities, reflective processes, minimising competitive activities, and engagement of local communities could be useful strategies for building social cohesion through sport.
Authors: David Hudelist, Eleftheria Papageorgiou, Louis Moustakas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003383291-13
Publish Year: 2024
