A Sport for Development and Peace framework that facilitates moral development through liberal education and sport

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Sport - Miscellaneous grade: GPA 3.7 International University of Monaco course: Sport for Development language: English abstract: The Western world commonly champions the power of sport for social cohesion and com-munal pride (Schulenkorf 2011) through sporting mega events and small-scale development projects. Empirical evidence however that proof those claims are scarce (Chalip 2006; Coalter 2007; Kidd 2008). Sport for good has received critics based on statistical proof that neither economical nor other social benefits reach the ones in need (Briedenhann 2011). Even further most projects claiming to assist the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/) are poorly implemented and lack coordination with mainstream development activities (Tiessen 2011). The complexity of conflicts and difficulty to transform those to achieve sustainable peace makes it impossible for sport as a single phenomenon to be detached from broader initiatives. Consequently the document hereafter aims to combine theory and anecdotal evidence to suggest a Sport for Development and Peace framework (SDP) that is believed to be universal and leaves positive legacies be-hind. The suggested methodology utilizes the ideas of liberal education and the perks of sport to facilitate moral development.