Cricket 4 Peace

The first ever cross-border peacebuilding project to utilize cricket, this project brings together Israeli and Palestinian children from disadvantaged communities teaching them a new sport, as well as instilling them with values of peace and tolerance. Cricket has been successfully used in other regions as a tool for bringing people of different backgrounds, cultures and religions together, however this is the first time it has been applied in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Through the well established and developed Twinned Peace Sports Schools project model, the Peres Center has been able to successfully develop this new and innovative Cricket 4 Peace project, launched in 2010. The project provides these youth with much needed extra curricular activity and the opportunity to meet their counterparts from the 'other side' for the very first time and to share the experience together of learning how to play cricket.

This project is supported by the Heathside Charitable Trust and run in partnership with the Israeli Cricket Association. The project is recognized by the International Cricket Council and Cricket 4 Change.