About Us

Our Mission

We contribute to the advancement of the field of Sport for Development and Peace through academic research and insights, policy advocacy, and strategic stakeholder engagement.

Grassroots Peacebuilding & Youth Leadership

Utilizing football as an accessible educational tool to equip young people with conflict resolution skills and to empower them as active peacebuilders. We gather and disseminate inspirational stories and case studies about football and footballers at all levels and from diverse backgrounds worldwide.

Academic & Practical Research

Generating evidence-based insights that bridge grassroots methodology with formal peacebuilding frameworks, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Positive Peace indices of the Institute for Economics and Peace.

Policy & Global Advocacy

Engaging institutional stakeholders and shaping policy to establish football, the world game, as a vital, measurable pillar of local and global peacebuilding, diplomacy and human security.

Over the last five years Football4community has been a space to tell the amazing and inspirational stories about footballers and the role they have off the field of play, supporting causes and projects that benefit the communities in which they live.

From January 2025 we changed the name and the objectives of the website to footballpeaceacademy.com. The Football Peace Academy concentrates on how the world game promotes the goals of of the United Nations to help people to thrive by developing the skills of everyday peacemaking in their own communities.

In this spirit we are delighted to announce our new project in Colombia, in partnership with Goles por la Paz in Bucaramanga. The project, Training Positive Peace Champions, is funded by The Charitable Foundation set up by Steve and Deborah Killelea, based in Sydney, Australia.

The project will run over three years, beginning January 2025. Check in on this website and on Football Peace Academcy social media, for all the latest news.

Tom Woodhouse

Emeritus Professor University of Bradford Football Peace Academy Founder

Tim Woodhouse

Project Director and Co-Founder of Goles por la Paz

Willington Ortiz

Programme Manager and Co-Founder of Goles por la Paz

Lorena Blanco

Training Director

Prathivadi Anand

Peacebuilding and International Development Professor at the University of Bradford

Beatriz Carvalho

Project Coordinator and Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Bradford

Clive Barrett

Joint Coordinator of the International Network of Museums for Peace

Dr. Toni Dedeu

Adviser on Health and Wellbeing