Global SDP Conference
Sport, Development and Peace: Current Challenges, Global Developments
ESPOL, Université Catholique de Lille, France / University College Dublin, Ireland
Friday 28 October 2022
Sport is often considered to play a role in promoting peace and development. However, in practice the relationships between sport, peace and development can prove fraught with difficulties and complexities. The aim of this global conference was to outline and respond to some of these challenges and evaluate the significance, utility and limitations of sport.
This global, concurrent SDP event saw scholars present live from four continents spread across five time zones. The subsequent aim is to produce an edited collection with each presenter contributing a chapter. The conference had no parallel sessions, with each contributor given the opportunity to see everyone else present. This means that for the edited collection each author will have an idea of where their work sits within the broader collection of work. Hopefully the outcome is a more coherent text than it might otherwise have been.
The conference was organised by Dr Joel Rookwood (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Dr Michael Holmes (Catholic University of Lille, France). The event was jointly hosted by the European School of Political and Social Sciences in Lille in partnership with University College Dublin. The conference formed part of the Ecoposs initiative of the Catholic University of Lille. Further information including the schedule, abstracts and presenter biographies is available here.
The videos below are to serve as teaching resources for SDP-related courses - and to facilitate connections and inspire debate.
Promo video
Conference introduction - Dr Joel Rookwood (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Dr Michael Holmes (ESPOL, Université Catholique de Lille, France)
The potential contribution of sport to the sustainable development agenda - Professor Emma Sherry (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
The role of special events in sport-for-development: leveraging opportunities - Associate Professor Nico Schulenkorf (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Sustainable sport for development? The role of informal sport in refugee resettlement - Professor Ruth Jeanes (Monash University, Australia)
Examining a student-led, Global North refugee and asylum seeker football project - Dr Joel Rookwood (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Positive disruptive development: Tackling contemporary youth violence through hyper-local sport - Dr Holly Collison-Randall (Loughborough University London, England)
Towards community-led sport for development - Dr Mark Doidge (University of Brighton, England)
Studying sport-for-development in Africa as means of reciprocal agency - Professor Cora Burnett (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Using Ubuntu pedagogy to transform sports-for-development in sub-Saharan Africa - Dr Oscar Mwaanga (University of London, England)
Sustainability in and of sport for development and peace: tensions, challenges and possibilities - Associate Professor Simon Darnell (University of Toronto, Canada)
Moving in captivity: promises and pitfalls of sport and development in prisons - Dr Mark Norman (McMaster University, Canada)
