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Using Radio to Make Grasroot Sport Grow

11 November 2002

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.[more]




Rwanda Invests More in Sports to Improve Image

20 February 2002

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...[more]




Kosova: Playing Football in Secret

15 November 2000

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...[more]




Open Fun Football Schools - A Tool for Peace in the Balkans

15 November 2000

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.[more]




In Search of Personal and National Identity

13 November 2000

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.[more]




Race and Sport: The Social Costs of Black Dominance

13 November 2000

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




Daily Life in Danish Associations - Not so Altruistic After All

19 June 1997

Denmark has a lot of associations for non competitive sports. Here sports sociologist Bjarne Ipsen explains some of the characteristics and peculiarities of the Danish associations.[more]




Sport, Culture and the Good Story - The Old Strength of Civil Society

18 June 1997

Sport is not only one. In its diversity, there lie fundamentally different approaches towards health - and towards what could be the good story for press and media.[more]




The Cultural Secrets of Sport - Globalization or National Identity

18 June 1997

Globalization seems to be the most important and meaningful catchword of our decade. Sport seems to be in a very obvious way a global phenomenon and influenced by the tendencies of globalization.[more]




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