Peace Building Through Sport? An Introduction to Sport for Development and Peace

Sport, Peace and Development

Sport as Opportunity for Community Development and Peace Building in South Africa

The Global Millennium Development Goals and the Magglingen Conference in December 2005 both affirm sport as a “beacon of hope” for peace building and development efforts throughout the world. For this International Conference on Sport and Development at University of the Western Cape, this paper will focus its attention on the “home-front” and consider if and under what conditions sport can pla...

Building a Republican Peace

an impressive international apparatus dedicated to peacebuilding—that is, the attempt to build stable, legitimate, and effective states after war—has emerged.1 The arst sustained push in this direction came with the development of second-generation peacekeeping operations that both monitored cease-ares and attempted to help states emerging from civil wars develop the requisites for a stable pea...

Fasting and sport: an introduction.

Most humans observe an overnight fast on a daily basis, and the human body copes well with short duration fasting. Periodic fasting is widely practised for cultural, religious or health reasons. Fasting may take many different forms. Prolonged restriction of food and fluid is harmful to health and performance, and it is often automatically assumed that intermittent fasting will lead to decremen...

Peace through vaccine diplomacy.

CAN VACCINATIONS HELP TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS AND NURTURE DIPLOMACY? LATER THIS MONTH, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, will host U.S. President Obama, a visit that could establish important scientifi c ties between the United States and Indonesia and implement a potentially powerful piece of vaccine diplomacy. The oral polio vaccine is a substantive example of how vaccination...