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A Fight for Peace evidence guide that challenges four common myths about boxing, martial arts and other combat sports, showing how they build life skills in young people.

This review looks at the debate on transgender athletes' participation in competitive sport across four areas: medical evidence, policy and law, media narratives and lived experience. It argues the issue is a wider governance challenge, not only a question of eligibility.

The Industry that Moves the World, the first-ever assessment of the sector's economic footprint, was released today by the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, a Marsh business. According to this landmark report, the sporting goods...

The document compiles the results of programs implemented in Latin America, Africa, and Europe, and demonstrates how sports can contribute to the well-being, physical activity, and protection of children, youth, and communities in diverse contexts.

The partnership of the Waves of Inclusion project, co-funded by the European Union is pleased to announce and share the publication of the first two key deliverables of the Waves of Inclusion project, the Literature Review and the Practitioner Toolkit.

Welcome to our second Research Wrap of 2026 - brought to you by the International Platform on Sport and Development (sportanddev) and the UNESCO Chair on Sport for Development, Peace and Environment (SDPE).

Girls often face barriers to meaningful sport participation, especially within men-dominated sports. Increasing inclusive sport spaces for girls is crucial for fostering enjoyment in sport. Canadian Girls Baseball is a women-led organization that offers girls-only programming and intentional...

The book presents the field of sport for development and peace (SDP) from an Ibero-American perspective. Its starting point is that sport is a social phenomenon that can contribute to physical well-being, socialisation, mental health, and addressing inequalities, and that in recent decades it...

KAF empowers girls through sport, education, and leadership, creating safe, inclusive pathways for confidence, opportunity, and social change.

Global policy discourse increasingly frames sport, leisure, and recreation as tools for advancing climate justice alongside education, health, and social cohesion.

The East Africa Cup 2026, held in Moshi, Tanzania, was a 5-day multi-sport event that brought together 18 football teams and 60 chess players from Tanzania and Kenya. The event focused on youth empowerment, community development, and social transformation, with a new digital registration system...

The findings underscore the need for child-led, contextually grounded recreational play opportunities to be embedded within humanitarian and EiE responses.