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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 6 – Sarajevo

Football Beyond Borders’ latest recruit, TransConflict contributor and SOAS Global Diplomacy student Heidi Green, gives her first impressions as we arrive into Sarajevo knowing that the tour effectively begins again here ...
by James Appleby
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Balkans

Football: A Way of Life in Mostar

A special article from Football Beyond Borders founder Jasper Kain on his experiences promoting tolerance through football in Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina:  We buy our tickets in a hole chiselled in the stone wall nestled...
by James Appleby
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Economy
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Football: The European Dilemma

After the closure of this summer’s transfer window, one has to wonder: what happened to Michel Platini’s plan regarding financial fair play? This summer’s transfer season has seen the likes of Paris Saint Germain, Napoli,...
by Nadim Souss
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 4 – Mostar

The conclusion of our ground-breaking multi-ethnic tournament that brought together fierce city rivals Velez Mostar and Zrinjski Mostar onto the same pitch playing in harmony was upon us, and it was those two teams who were to ...
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 3 – Mostar

After a wonderful, uplifting day providing football workshops for the orphans at Our Kids Foundation in Mostar, it was time to use spread our messages of anti-discrimination and anti-racism to the promising children of Mostar&#...
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Brazil
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Brazil’s Economic Future: A Snapshot

When my professors were my age they heard that Brazil was the up and coming country; it was the one to invest in and they would watch it grow to unprecedented levels, when I began college it was still the country of the future....
by Robert Marks
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 2 – Mostar

In the opening day of our Balkans tour, we saw the inspiring work that Our Kids Foundation does to give orphans in Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina a quality of life that is so unique in a nation lacking in welfare money and havi...
by James Appleby
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 1 – Mostar

Arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one immediately has mixed emotions. Upon seeing the bullet-holes and mass graves – the recent memories that are a tragically normal part of everyday life in this remarkable country, one...
by James Appleby
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour 2013 – Preview

Hello, one and all, and welcome to the first in a series of daily blogs covering the activities of Football Beyond Borders in the Balkan regions. During the next 19 days we will bring together communities across the Former Yugo...
by James Appleby
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