ABSTRACT
This essay takes as a case study ‘the Golombiao’: a government strategy of the Colombian state (South America), which aims to transform the practice of recreational soccer to promote coexistence, social participation and gender equity in armed conflict zones. The practice of ‘Golombiao’ is similar to soccer but some of its rules are formulated by the people who play it. Winning depends on several factors, among them, the respect for the collective rules. I propose to compare this government strategy with the conceptual apparatus of bioethics. Bioethics is a bridge between the sciences and other disciplines used to understand and propose alternatives to specific cases where life is threatened. Bioethics has some relations with the objectives proposed by the Golombiao. This government strategy defines life as a process of reflection and of collective action, and also seeks the construction of community solidarity using the transformation of sport as a tool.
