Tag: The Liverpool Centre for Olympic Research on Inclusion

This presentation, drawing together the findings of several projects on sport mega-events, human rights, and social movements argues that we are currently witnessing what Neil Stammers’ calls the paradox of institutionalisation with regard to safeguarding human rights at sport mega-events. This paradox explains how the incorporation of policies and procedures related to human rights can result in rights becoming a tool of power, not a challenge to it.