The Geneva Center for Security Policy is hosting an event on SDP. sportanddev.org's executive director, Jutta Engelhardt, will present.

Sport is increasingly recognised as a viable strategic peacebuilding tool and sport for development and peace (SDP) is as a growing interdisciplinary academic field and policy sector.

Sport-based interventions have emerged as useful tools to bring people together in divided societies, and to maintain open channels of communication in highly volatile environments. In post-conflict situations, sport is used to assist in reframing social relations between communities and groups that have been disrupted due to conflict and war.

These activities and projects are supported and implemented by a multiplicity of social actors (notably the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee, national governments, sport federations and sport celebrities, international development agencies and civil society), increasingly making SDP a veritable policy sector. In parallel, academic institutions and researchers have been taking interest in the field of sport for development and peace, resulting in growing numbers of research projects and publications on this topic, which give testimony to the positive impact that well-structured sport-based interventions may have on divided communities, as well as of the potential and limitations of the use of sports to achieve peace and positive social transformation. At the same time, framing sport as a strategic tool for peace-building and supporting the positive development of post-conflict situations still remains a task to be fully accomplished.

https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/events/role-sport-peacebuilding-and-post-conflict

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04
Apr
1 DAY
11:00 - 13:00, EDT
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Apr
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22:00 - 23:00, PKT
https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/events/kafkas-5th-annual-international-sdp-webinar
 
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