In collaboration with Leuven University (Belgium) and the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH, Qatar), the 2022 CILE Summer Program will focus on questions pertaining to the key ethical issues related to the field of Sport Studies. Sport and physical activities are compulsory or strongly encouraged in most countries throughout childhood schooling. As an academic field of study, the philosophy of sport has only been developed since the 1970s. Recent controversies in professional sport have sparked a wide-ranging interest in sports ethics. There are also ethics pertaining to business and sport sponsorship; race and discrimination in sport; competition and virtue ethics; politics and culture of sport; and bioethics of sport. In addition to the ethical, social and economic significance of sport, there is a spiritual dimension that has not attracted much academic attention but will be addressed in this program. The CILE Summer School will canvas a number of these morally significant issues as sub-topics in the broad theme of Sports Ethics and raise suggestions for further research and analysis.
