community building

Laura Robinson is the author of the book " Crossing the Line - Violence and sexual assaults in Canada's national sport". Her vital research  on sexual abuse in Canadian junior hockey was met with a deep and intellectual...

For many, Sydney beating Beijing for the 2000 Olympics was a straight-out case of the forces of good smashing the forces of evil. For them, there were no grey areas, no irritating complexities .

Despite the profile that it engenders for a nation as well as a myriad of benefits, sport remains a low priority in the budgets of most of the worlds developing nations. But, argues William Glenwright, sport is an integral...

In Kosova, sports federations attempt to use sport as a tool of reconciliation. Boards of federations must have at least one representative from minorities, and teams with different ethnic backgrounds have started playing against...

Prosport, centre for sports development was formed in the end of January 2001 as a non-governmental organization with an aim to promote and develop sports in Yugoslavia.

After years of insecurity perpetrated by elements of defeated militiamen, Rwanda has been on an ambitious programme to build her image. The Paul Kagame-led administration has succeeded in using sports as an essential vehicle to...

In 1989 football games for players of Kosovar origin was driven underground by Serbian police. In the period until 1998 Kosova had more than 130 football clubs and more than 10.000 footballers, who played all their games in...

In this article, Anders Levinsens introduces the Open Fun Football Schools, which is a humanitarian sports project he has initiated and implemented in Bosnia Herzegovina and FYR Macedonia.

Globalization confronts the world with new paradoxes. While the market by its commercial logic tends to unify consumption and life on a global level, nation building appears as a counterstrategy.

The past century of integrated sport has demonstrated that interracial athletic competition has both positive and negative effects.