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The $6,500 grant will support PeacePlayers Chicago’s summer programming to build community cohesion and create safer neighborhoods this summer PeacePlayers Chicago was awarded a $6,500 grant from the 2026 Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful
My name is Jonathan Geueke, I just turned 19 years old, and I’m from Essen, Germany. Since October 2025, I have been volunteering with PeacePlayers South Africa in Durban. In this blog post, I’d like to tell you how I got to South Africa an…
When the President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly (Uachtarán na hÉireann), stepped into the Physical Education Centre at Queen’s University Belfast on her first official state visit to Northern Ireland since taking office, the moment carrie…
About UsOpen menu Our History How We Create Change Our Team Our Board Partners and Awards Our WorkOpen menu South Africa Northern Ireland Middle East United States Friendship Games PeacePlayers Global Girls Campaign The Sport and Peace Inno…
Despite the fragile and unresolved nature of the present Middle East cease fire, for the first time in many, many years the people of our region have reason for real and tangible hope. At PeacePlayers, we embrace this long-awaited opportuni…
In 2017, PeacePlayers partnered with Nike to expand to the U.S., focusing on equity, leadership development and engaging girls. The Girls Summit is the ultimate celebration of our year-round program, where girls and young women step into th…
We sat down with Paris and Noma, two alumni of PeacePlayers South Africa who are knee deep in their academic pursuits. Both are the first people in their families to go to university and both are as ambitious as they come – Noma is studying…
We sat down with PeacePlayers Northern Ireland coach Una Harkin and Scaling Project Coordinator Alex Mosley, to hear in their words what PeacePlayers Northern Ireland is all about, and what basketball has to do with it. Una: I'm Una. I'm fr…
Lindani and Olwami are two recent PeacePlayers South Africa alumni. Read what they have to say about the role that PeacePlayers and basketball itself are having in their country. Lindani: My name is Lindani. I’m from Umlazi, South Africa. I…
There are no gentle giants in the NBA, not when it’s standard most nights to bang up against forwards and centers hovering around 7 feet tall, some of whom are pushing close to 300 pounds.Off the court, well, that’s a different story. Mike
We’re not gonna lie. It took a good minute for the Friendship to get up and running. It took a few hours of jet-lagged napping in the Jerusalem hotel lobby, some side-eyeing at new smells and flavors at meal times, and a fair amount of awkw…