human rights - Prof. Dr. Ana ADI

New publication: Olympic humanitarianism – the fundamental principles of Olympism

by anaadiBeijing, human rights, IOC, olympism, Publications, research January 20, 2015December 4, 2018No Comments

The Journal of Olympic History recently features on the cover of its latest number my article “Olympic humanitarianism: the fundamental principles of Olympism”. While I have published shorter articles on the same topic before in Culture @ the Olympics and Sportanddev.org this is the article that contains the research that informed them. This article, …

My PhD Thesis in the British Library

by anaadiBeijing, dissertation, human rights, olympism, Publications, research February 21, 2014September 5, 2024No Comments

You can now find my PhD thesis in the British Library collection of electronic theses. Below is the abstract of my thesis: The Olympic Games is a mechanism through which numerous advocacy and political groups compete to frame the media coverage that it generates. These processes are restricted by the relatively fixed guidelines imposed upon …

ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Olympism sessions

by anaadihuman rights, new media, olympism June 12, 2010One Comment

There were two Olympism sessions at the ISDPA Power of Sport Summit touching mainly on two major topics: youth (as in the Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Education) and Human Rights (as in the Charter as a human rights promotion mechanism and one on the Olympic Truce). To them Dr Mary Hums’ presentation on a …

The Twitter Olympics? Iâ€™d say the digital social activist Olympics.

by anaadihuman rights, new media, research, Vancouver 2010 March 2, 201015 Comments

Just days before the Games were ready to begin talks online were already debating the future of the Olympics and their relationship with the online, viagra approved social media. Many have asserted then that these Winter Games will mark the history of the Olympics by being the first where Twitter, buy as a micro-blogging platform …

3rd International Business Sport Symposium

by anaadiconference, human rights, new media February 24, 2010One Comment

On February 19th, adiposity together with my supervisor Andy Miah and my PhD colleague Jennifer Jones, thumb I haveÂ attended the 3rd International Sport Business Symposium organized by UBC and the Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz. Â The symposium brought olympic academics, IOC members and sports practitioners in the same room enabling a fruitful conversation after each …