Football as a weapon of soft power: The beautiful game hiding the ugly truth
Author: Kenn Rushworth“Sports is always to do with politics. Sports is part of our society. And the society is political”Ewald Lienen – Technical Director of FC St. PauliSoft Power and Sports WashingFootball has long been used as a soft power tool, most commonly by...
Activist athletes: from a diary about the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo to a livestream with migrant workers in Qatar?
Author: Bram Daanen “The tournament starts tomorrow for us. A lot is going through my mind.” writes Dutch hockey player Hans Jorritsma (2013) before the opening match at the 1978 Hockey World Cup in Argentina, organised by the murderous dictatorship of Jorge Videla....
True, fake news, or conspiracy theory? A look inside the Ukrainian information war
Author: Beatriz Buarque ‘What is true?’. Perhaps this is one of the main questions that have come to our minds since February 21st alongside ‘why is Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine?’. Since the Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation...
From Madrid to Glasgow: On the way to implement the Paris Agreement
Author: Djego Abedinaj Since 1995 when the first Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Berlin, the road from Madrid to Glasgow has been longer than any other conference. Due to the COVID pandemic, the COP26 planned to be held in Glasgow was postponed ahead of 2020....
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There exists in our mind an image of what and where we would have been at this point had the pandemic not happened. It is not necessarily grandiose; it may even be a little mundane. We would have attended conferences, had opportunities to network and actually conduct...
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