EFFECTIVE MEDIATION STRATEGY AS A MEANS OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND RESOLUTION IN SPORTS

Charles Obinna Okeke

Abstract


The article studies the nature of conflicts in sports. It focuses on mediation as a strategy for managing and resolving disputes related to sports. The article identifies five unique kinds or sources of conflicts in sports that are not totally different from the common types of conflict in regular human activities. It projects three mediatory strategies for resolving sports conflicts- win-win, win-lose, and lose-lose approaches. It, however, finds that there are sports conflicts that may be unresolvable by a third party (mediator); hence the need for the founding of the Court of Arbitration for Sports in the early 1980s. The article posits that for the mediatory strategies to gain more grounds in the resolution and management of sports conflicts, stakeholders and all participants in sports must learn to be ‘good losers and gracious victors’; a value or principle which sports represent in their entirety

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