A new social movement: Sport for development and peace

• DOI: 10.1080/17430430802019268
• Publication Date: 2008-06-12
• Authors: Bruce Kidd
• Keywords: 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences; Banner; Peace movement; Commonwealth

In recent years, national and international sports organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities and schools have conducted programmes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to assist development. These initiatives, linked under the banner 'Sport Development Peace' (SDP), have been prompted by athlete activism and an idealist response to fall apartheid, enabled openings created end Cold War, neo-liberal emphasis upon entrepreneurship mass mobilizations 'Make Poverty History'. A major focus policy has the United Nations, SDP International Working Group, Commonwealth Advisory Body on Sport. This essay sketches out the landscape of this new movement, critiques problems and considers prospects.