Even Just to Celebrate Our Differences: Why We Still Need Sports to Make Peace
Category: SPORTS
To many of my friends in the U.S., sports often entail beer on a Sunday night. To some in Africa, it might mean making and playing with a football made from plastic bags. But this is exactly how sports unite by highlighting commonality among those who are otherwise very different.
By Meicen Sun, ContributorPhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014-07-02