Sport for a Better World? A Social Scientific Investigation of the Sport for Development and Peace Sector

该项目将调查体育促进发展与和平部门。体育发展方案的特点是全世界有数百个方案和组织，它们利用体育作为干预工具，促进发展、和平、人权和社会正义等非体育目标。体育促进发展与和平是一个日益制度化的部门：其最突出的国际倡导者包括联合国体育促进发展与和平办公室（体育促进发展与和平办公室）和伦敦的英联邦秘书处。其他关键的SDP利益相关者包括英国体育，英国理事会，政府部门（例如国际发展部）、慈善机构（例如漫画救济）、大公司（例如巴克莱银行）、体育联合会、协调或实施SDP工作的许多非政府组织（例如街头足球世界、体育与发展平台）以及抗议体育中剥削或腐败的运动团体（例如玩游戏）。社会发展方案的目标和规模各不相同;最大的倡议是跨国性的，涉及多个机构，通常旨在满足人类的基本需求（例如，在饱受战争蹂躏的地区实现和平），尽管发展迅速，但我们对社会发展方案部门的社会和组织结构以及在不同文化背景下如何规划、实施和体验不同类型的社会发展方案工作的了解有限。如果要确定未来发展SDP的强有力的政策、做法和战略，这种知识是必不可少的。该项目旨在填补这一知识空白，提供第一个对社会发展政策的实质性比较研究，并对该部门的发展产生长期影响。该项目有五个主要目标：1：审查社会发展政策部门是如何从社会和组织的角度构建的，特别是通过调查不同的政策、网络和社会发展政策利益攸关方之间的权力关系;以及该部门如何通过新型伙伴关系变得更加有效。第二章：通过对社会发展政策主要活动的三个选定领域进行比较研究，审查社会发展政策的工作：赋予残疾人权力;促进和平和解决冲突;以及促进人权。我们将探讨用户群体如何参与规划和实施SDP工作;以及SDP部门的这些方面和其他方面如何随着时间的推移而发展。4：比较研究SDP在五个选定的主要SDP活动地点的工作：波斯尼亚，牙买加，塞拉利昂，斯里兰卡和赞比亚。我们将探讨SDP工作如何与当地条件相关; SDP组织是否与其他当地参与者建立联系;以及国家和地方政府在促进SDP工作中的作用。5：产生具有重大非学术和学术影响的研究成果。调查结果将探讨，例如，未来的政策，规划和跨SDP组织的伙伴关系;如何适应SDP的“最佳做法”，以当地的情况下;以及如何提高SDP工作中的道德实践。调查结果将通过出版物、报告、介绍、媒体渠道和赠款结束专题讨论会传播。该项目将：-建立在我们对社会发展政策的大量试点研究的基础上;-受益于我们对社会发展政策主要利益相关者和看门人的特殊研究，特别是英联邦秘书处，联合国社会发展政策办公室，英国体育和许多关键的非政府组织;-由于社会发展政策部门的国际结构和干预地点，具有国际重点（特别是在发展中国家）;- 在研究问题、方法和分析方面主要采用社会学方法，同时与人类学和残疾、和平、人权、发展和全球化等“研究"领域有着重要联系;- 采用定性方法，特别是在五个研究地点进行实地考察，并与所有类型的SDP利益相关者（包括用户群体）进行访谈;-运行24个月。

This project will investigate the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) sector. SDP features hundreds of programmes and organizations across the world which use sport as a tool of intervention to promote non-sport goals such as development, peace, human rights and social justice. SDP is an increasingly institutionalized sector: its most prominent international advocates include the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) and the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. Other key SDP stakeholders include UK Sport, British Council, governmental departments (e.g. DfID), charities (e.g. Comic Relief), major corporations (e.g. Barclays Bank), sport federations, many non-governmental organizations which coordinate or implement SDP work (e.g. streetfootballworld, Sport and Development platform), and campaigning groups which protest against exploitation or corruption in sport (e.g. Play the Game). SDP programmes have very diverse objectives and scales; the largest initiatives are transnational, involve multiple agencies, and usually aim to meet basic human needs (e.g. peace in war-torn regions).Despite its rapid growth, we have limited knowledge of how the SDP sector is structured socially and organizationally; and how different kinds of SDP work are planned, implemented and experienced in diverse cultural contexts. This knowledge is essential if robust policies, practices and strategies for the future development of SDP are to be identified. The project aims to fill that knowledge gap by providing the first substantial comparative investigation of SDP, and by having long-term impact on the sector's development. The project has five main objectives:1: To examine how the SDP sector is constructed in social and organizational terms, notably by investigating the different policies, networking, and power relations between SDP stakeholders; and, how the sector may become more effective through new types of partnership. 2: To examine SDP work through the comparative investigation of three selected fields of major SDP activity: empowering people with disabilities; promoting peace and conflict resolution; and advancing human rights.3: To examine SDP programmes, particularly their organization, implementation and user-group experiences. We shall probe how user groups are engaged in planning and implementing SDP work; and, how these and other aspects of the SDP sector develop over time.4: To examine comparatively SDP work in five selected locations of major SDP activity: Bosnia, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Zambia. We shall explore how SDP work relates to local conditions; whether SDP organizations build ties with other local actors; and, the roles of national and local government in facilitating SDP work.5: To produce research findings with major non-academic and academic impacts. Findings will explore, for example, future policies, planning and partnerships across SDP organizations; how to adapt SDP 'best practices' to local contexts; and how to enhance ethical practice in SDP work. Findings will be disseminated through publications, reports, presentations, media outlets and an end-of-grant symposium. The project will:- build upon our substantial pilot research on SDP;- benefit from our exceptional research access to leading SDP stakeholders and gatekeepers, notably the Commonwealth Secretariat, UNOSDP, UK Sport and many key NGOs;- have an international focus, due to the SDP sector's international structure and locations of intervention (notably in developing nations); - draw mainly on a sociological approach in regard to research questions, methods, and analysis, while having significant links to anthropology and 'studies' research fields in disability, peace, human rights, development and globalization; - apply qualitative methods, particularly fieldwork in the five research locations and interviews with all types of SDP stakeholder (including user groups);- run for 24 months.