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Sport for Development and Peace (SDP): A Proposal for Meaningful Inclusion Leading to Sustained Change

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This chapter examines sport’s evolution, from a modern, hyper-specialized, and high-performance social institution, towards the institutionalization of a Sport for All approach. The intersection between sport, development, and global non-sports agendas, especially within the United Nations System has attracted a plethora of sport and non-sport, government, private, and social actors to Sport for Development and Peace initiatives, also known as Sportland. The refocusing of sport, as a mean for achieving broader social goals makes necessary to differentiate between sport plus and plus sport approaches. The former has traditionally focused on growing sports per se, whereas the latter has used sport to reach at-risk populations that arguably could tackle diverse economic and social problems through sport-based initiatives. The undeniable growth and the changing nature of SDP initiatives and programs shall be analyzed critically, as sport is far from representing a magic wand or a universal remedy to social, political, and/or economic ills. This chapter lays down some basic guidelines to analyze SDP evolution, trying to identify evidence of progress, relapses, and/or stalemates taking place within Sportland. The proposed analysis is based on two binaries: inclusion-exclusion and continuity-change. The discussion then focuses on the persistence of both multiple exclusions and a great deal of continuity. It is argued that exclusions are difficult to see because they are not legally or officially sanctioned; rather they are structural. Finally, there are a few recommendations for achieving greater inclusion that ultimately leads to meaningful change within SDP.

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Añorve Añorve, D. (2021). Sport for Development and Peace (SDP): A Proposal for Meaningful Inclusion Leading to Sustained Change. In: Liamputtong, P. (eds) Handbook of Social Inclusion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48277-0_103-1

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