Hi there,
Neil and I have recently been in touch with Alex Channon, pictured below, (School of Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton) regarding his 2018 chapter with Christopher Matthews entitled Love Fighting Hate Violence: An Anti-Violence Program for Martial Arts and Combat Sports (in the book Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures, edited by Thomas F. Carter, Daniel Burdsey and Mark Doidge, Routledge).
Alex has kindly agreed to send us some further information on the toolkit that features as part of the chapter.
The Love Fighting Hate Violence (LFHV) project is an anti-violence initiative aimed at inspiring reflection and generating pedagogical interventions within martial arts and combat sports. It's goal is to harness the potential of these activities for educating people about violence, specifically with respect to understanding the principles of consent and violation. This chimes very well with FCMA.
The chapter provides a theoretical overview of the project’s core philosophy by way of an interactionist reading of fights as social encounters. It then turns to discussing some of the practical materials already developed for use within LFHV. These draw on the aforementioned theory, as well as a values-based
teaching methodology, to frame the potential contribution that this project can make to anti-violence education.
It's likely that some of the ideas in the toolkit match up well with elements of our FCMA workshops so it'll be great to explore any similarities and differences, especially as we move into 2021 and hopefully further away from the pandemic and all its suffering and related restrictions.
Have a lovely peaceful and healthy end to 2020, fierce best wishes one and all,
Syd
