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Rasism och fotboll - Jämförande studie av FIFA:s och FN:s syn på rasism

Vilhelmsson, Jonas LU (2010) MRSG20 20101
Human Rights Studies
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Abstract
Racism is a scourge of society, and creates division between human beings. Football is a sport that in many ways creates unity. Despite of this, the problems of racism is very substantial in football. The international football association (FIFA) has a lot of the responsibility to erase racism from the sport. How successfully FIFA will cope with the problems of racism, depends on the organization´s basic view on racism. That is the reason why I in this essay have analyzed FIFA´s view on racism. I also compare this view to the racism view of the UN. The UN´s view on racism is based on human rights and therefore gives a human rights approach to racism. My conclusions are that the organizations views on racism are very much alike. Therefore... (More)
Racism is a scourge of society, and creates division between human beings. Football is a sport that in many ways creates unity. Despite of this, the problems of racism is very substantial in football. The international football association (FIFA) has a lot of the responsibility to erase racism from the sport. How successfully FIFA will cope with the problems of racism, depends on the organization´s basic view on racism. That is the reason why I in this essay have analyzed FIFA´s view on racism. I also compare this view to the racism view of the UN. The UN´s view on racism is based on human rights and therefore gives a human rights approach to racism. My conclusions are that the organizations views on racism are very much alike. Therefore they also have a lot to learn from each other, and possibilities to cooperate against
racism. (Less)
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author
Vilhelmsson, Jonas LU
supervisor
organization
course
MRSG20 20101
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
fotboll, FIFA, FN, rasism
language
Swedish
id
1653212
date added to LUP
2010-09-24 16:53:41
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:54
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  abstract     = {{Racism is a scourge of society, and creates division between human beings. Football is a sport that in many ways creates unity. Despite of this, the problems of racism is very substantial in football. The international football association (FIFA) has a lot of the responsibility to erase racism from the sport. How successfully FIFA will cope with the problems of racism, depends on the organization´s basic view on racism. That is the reason why I in this essay have analyzed FIFA´s view on racism. I also compare this view to the racism view of the UN. The UN´s view on racism is based on human rights and therefore gives a human rights approach to racism. My conclusions are that the organizations views on racism are very much alike. Therefore they also have a lot to learn from each other, and possibilities to cooperate against
racism.}},
  author       = {{Vilhelmsson, Jonas}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Rasism och fotboll - Jämförande studie av FIFA:s och FN:s syn på rasism}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}