International Conference “Fight Against Racism and Violence
through Diversity in Sport”, Belgrade, 20-21 October 2009
21 October: Educational and preventive measures
OPENING SESSION Introduction to the Conference by the general
rapporteur of the Conference Mr Radim Burés
Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport and
the Ministry of Youth and Sport
of the Republic of Serbia
with the support of the Secretariat of the
European Convention on Spectator Violence
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the Council of Europe.
To
encourage and enable to participate in
building peaceful societies based on
human rights, diversity and inclusion, in a
spirit of fair play, respect, tolerance, and
mutual understanding
To establish a network of communication
and promote dialog among different
actors
To exchange of good practices in the fight
against racism and violence in sport
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EPAS and of the Council of Europe.
To motivate participants to the further effort in
fighting against racism and violence in sport
To add a synergy to endeavour of different
actors working in different segment of society
(legislation, sport area, law enforcement)
To help to make international legislation,
different
recommendations
and
national
legislation work
To present and discuss successful approaches
from various countries in order to prevent
reinventing the wheel
To consider to prepare a compendium of good
practice in this respect
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Senior
civil servants responsible for sport
policy and prevention/educational/youth
policy
Law enforcement and criminal justice
officials
NGO members
Representatives of international organization
Researches, academics, experts
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EPAS and of the Council of Europe.
Using sport as a tool for prevention of racism and violence
Sport teaches us not only joy from physical exercise and
peaceful competition but also the need to obey rules
Need to tackle root causes of racism and violence at the
very early stage
Need to realise that if young people will not be influence
by positive way they may be influence by negative group
and environment in a negative way
Influence of youth and children, especially from deprived
conditions, by providing sport exercise/engagement
through different government, municipal, NGO, schools,
sport clubs initiatives
The work shop should exchange experience what works
and what not, stimulate new ideas and initiatives and
also should discuss how to stimulate the need to be
engaged in preventive actions within the sport world
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The sport world should come with initiatives
encouraging inter-cultural dialogue
Media play an important role in presenting intercultural nature of sport life
New way of both promoting intercultural nature
of sport and „marketing“ its manifestations
should be sought
The workshop should exchange ideas and
strength the need to find new ways of
promoting intercultural dialog through sport;
should discuss the role of sport organizations,
minorities, media, government bodies and
NGO representatives
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Sport
itself is not only area where positive
influencing of children and youth can be
made
There are other areas in education, social
life, culture where youth can be positively
formed and influenced. It has an impact on
non-discriminatory and non-violent behaviour
in sport events
The workshop should exchange good
practice and discuss cooperation and
coordination among different agencies and
actors going beyond the sport world
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EPAS and of the Council of Europe.
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EPAS and of the Council of Europe.
Education is not enough to prevent and suppress
racism and violence in society and in sport in
particular
It is a role of legal system to define clearly what
is permitted and what is not
Legal framework is even more important when
dealing with issues wit no clear consensus
There are number of different international
recommendation – national experts should be
aware of them
The workshop should discuss the issue of
developing
proper
national
regulatory
framework with the full use of international
recommendations and experts
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Legal regulations should be accompanied by
rigorous enforcement
Enforcement
means determines, evidence
gathering skills, tactical plans
It needs experience police officers, training,
cooperation with other actors
There are specific obstacles in enforcement of
anti-racist and anti-violence legislation – like
prejudices that „some „violence and racism“ can
be tolerated as a part of sport life
The workshop should deal with conditions of
proper law enforcement of racism and violence
and possible cooperation in this respect
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Racist and violence behaviour should be properly
sanctioned
Not all sanctions best fits to the offence
There are number of sanctions which prove to be
more effective and less costly – like stadium banning
orders, community work, probation etc.
Sometimes judicial system are reluctant to impose
the proper sanction because of presumed minority of
the offence or because of improper evidence
There is need for legal education – offenders should
know consequences of their behavior
The workshops will deal with good examples of
effective sanctions and how to overcome
obstacles and difficulties
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We
know WHAT is needed
We need to know HOW to do that (methods)
We need to know with WHOM to do that
(actors)
We should be aware of obstacles
We should discuss how to overcome these
obstacles
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Mutual
understanding and cooperation among
actors from different segments of society
Mutual motivation for further engagement in
fight against violence, racism and
discrimination in sport
Exchange of good practices
Discuss new methods, approaches, initiatives
Suggest the new initiatives at the Council of
Europe level
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Compilation
of the good practices in fighting
violence, racism and discrimination in sport
What
kind of common action we need
(trainings, public campaigns, regular seminars)
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