Partners and Events
No.44
May 2005
 
    

ICSSPE / ECSS Exchange Symposium - IYSPE 2005 Sport for Peace and Development
10th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science
13 - 16 July, 2005, Belgrade


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.
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