No.44 May 2005 |
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According to ICSSPE's activity fields Science, Service and Advocacy,
ICSSPE will hold a UN Symposium for Peace and Development at this
year's Congress of the European College of Sport Science. ICSSPE
Associations' Board Speaker Mike McNamee, who will be chairing the
Symposium, has invited three speakers to cover those fields sharing
working experience with the conference participants. Representing
the research section Ian Henry, Loughborough University, UK, will
review initiatives to promote peace and development through sport.
He aims to identify purposes of policy makers and underlying assumptions
in respect of conflict reducing roles, sport can play.
Nelli Koivisto is looking at development of equality in Finnish
Sports and sees an affect social factors have on individual's rights
and possibilities to participate in sports. By analysing Finnish
sports in a holistic set including regional, biological, educational,
political, sexual, generational, economical and equality perspectives
allowed to identify inequality causing factors. Sport resources
are affected by national age profile, growing health problems, regional
development and the growth of economic inequality. Nelli Koivisto
strives to illustrate organisations can work towards equality and
the policy-related necessity for research.
UN Officer Paulo David ascertains that competitive sports have
not yet been penetrated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child
and criticises that researchers and policy makers still seem to
fail to fully understand the human rights implications of involving
children and adolescents in competitive sports. He calls for researchers
to develop their agenda more coherently with the needs of policy
makers to support the ethical development of sports.
For further information and details visit: www.ecss2005.com
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