International Legal Basis of Using Sports for Development and Peace
https://doi.org/10.24833/0869-0049-2020-2-102-109
Abstract
INTRODUCTION. The article examines globalization processes in terms of their impact on sport, namely the integration of sport into current UN programmes based on the acts of the General Assembly and the accompanying framework standards. The author analyses the practices of Member States, the United Nations system and international sports organizations to lay the groundwork for joint action in the field of sport. The relevance of the study in the analysis of the latest UN incentive standards: the Kazan Action Plan and the Global Action Plan to increase the level of physical activity for 2018-2030, thus Russia plays an active role in their implementation.
MATERIALS AND METHODS. In conducting the study, the author relies on foreign doctrine, the practice of the subjects involved in the international sports movement, UN acts. Research methods: a dialectical approach to the knowledge of the WORK of the UN, allowing to analyze it in historical development and functioning in the context of coordination of cooperation in the field of sports. Comparative-legal method and dialectic determined the choice of specific methods of research: comparative and formal-legal.
RESEARCH RESULTS. Based on the analysis of UN acts affecting the impact of globalization on sport, the development of international relations in the systems of integration sports relations is considered, it is concluded that in the field of international tools A new model for regulating sport is being developed, a holistic conglomeration of rules and regulations that drives the globalism of sport and the achievement of the UN's socially significant goals.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. The author has proven the potential of the UN's analysis of international sporting events, and has come to the conclusion that it is necessary to promote it through sports initiatives as a means of promoting development and peace and topics it is inevitable that permanent cooperation of nations within the world sporting movement is on the development agenda. The arguments in the article in favor of a new model of sports-legal regulation are intended to streamline the international legal set of rules affecting sport.
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About the Author
A. V. IglinRussian Federation
Alexey V. Iglin, Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor at the Department of International and Integration Law
84-6, pr. Vernadskogo, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119571
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Iglin A.V. International Legal Basis of Using Sports for Development and Peace. Moscow Journal of International Law. 2020;(2):102-109. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/0869-0049-2020-2-102-109