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; Sport for Development; Banner; Sport Education; Peace movement; Teaching Games for Understanding; 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) the disadvantaged communities of First World to assist development (e.g. Olympic Solidarity), humanitarian relief Right Play), post-war reconciliation Playing for Peace), broad social CitationKicking AIDS Out). These initiatives, linked under banner ‘Sport Development Peace’ (SDP), been prompted by athlete activism an idealist response fall apartheid, enabled openings created end Cold War, neo-liberal emphasis upon entrepreneurship mass mobilizations ‘Make Poverty History’. A major focus policy has United Nations, SDP International Working Group, Commonwealth Advisory Body on Sport. This essay sketches out landscape this new movement, critiques problems considers prospects.