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（SDP）部门。在世界各地，有数百个方案和组织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。体育发展是一个日益制度化的部门：其最著名的国际倡导者包括联合国体育促进发展与和平办公室（UNOSDP）和伦敦的英联邦秘书处。其他主要的SDP利益相关者包括英国体育，英国文化协会，政府部门（如英国国际发展部），慈善机构（如喜剧救济），大公司（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（如街头足球世界，体育与发展平台），以及抗议体育剥削或腐败的竞选团体（如Play the Game）。社会发展方案的目标和规模各不相同；最大的倡议是跨国的，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）。尽管其增长迅速，但我们对社会和组织结构的了解有限；以及如何在不同的文化背景下规划、实施和体验不同类型的SDP工作。如果要确定SDP未来发展的有力政策、实践和战略，这些知识是必不可少的。该项目旨在通过对SDP进行首次实质性的比较调查，并对该行业的发展产生长期影响，从而填补这一知识空白。该项目有五个主要目标：1 .研究如何从社会和组织角度构建SDP部门，特别是通过调查SDP利益相关者之间的不同政策、网络和权力关系；以及如何通过新型伙伴关系提高该部门的效率。2：通过对三个选定的主要SDP活动领域的比较调查来检查SDP工作：赋予残疾人权力；促进和平与解决冲突；促进人权。3 .审查可持续发展方案，特别是其组织、执行和用户群体经验。我们将探讨用户群体如何参与规划和实施SDP工作；以及随着时间的推移，SDP部门的这些方面和其他方面是如何发展的。4 .比较审查社会发展方案主要活动的五个选定地点的社会发展方案工作：波斯尼亚、牙买加、塞拉利昂、斯里兰卡和赞比亚。我们将探讨社会发展计划的工作如何切合本地情况；社民党组织是否与其他地方行动者建立联系；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及学术影响的研究成果。调查结果将探讨未来的政策、规划和跨SDP组织的伙伴关系；如何使社会发展计划的“最佳做法”适应当地情况；以及如何在公共服务发展工作中加强道德实践。调查结果将通过出版物、报告、演讲、媒体渠道和赠款结束专题讨论会传播。该项目将：-以我们对SDP的大量试点研究为基础；-受益于我们对领先的SDP利益相关者和看门人的特殊研究，特别是英联邦秘书处，UNOSDP，英国体育和许多关键的非政府组织；-由于社会发展部门的国际结构和干预地点（特别是在发展中国家），具有国际重点；-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，并与各类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.