Sport, Development and Peace

Dr Joel Rookwood is director of Sport & Exercise Management at University College Dublin in Ireland, and is Head of Research at Aalborg Football Club in Denmark. Joel has led sport-for-development projects across six continents and has published widely in the fields of management, politics and international relations.

• Sport for Development and Peace: current challenges and global developments.- Sustainability in/of sports-for-development-and-peace: tensions, challenges, possibilities.- Understanding the potential contribution of sport to the sustainable development agenda.- Studying sport-for-development in Africa as a means of reciprocal agency.- Using Ubuntu pedagogy to transform sports-for-development in sub-Saharan Africa.- Promoting peace and tolerance among soccer fans: examples from Brazil.- Leveraging sports mega-events: positioning the sport-for-development-and-peace agenda.- The role of special events in sport-for-development : leveraging opportunities.- Bicycles, gender and development – feminist ethics, mutuality and reflexivity.- Towards community-led sport for development.- Sustainable sport for development ? The role of informal sport in refugee settlement.- Examining a student-led, Global North, refugee and asylum-seeker football.- Positive disruptive development : tackling youth violence through local sports interventions.- Physical activity, health & incarceration: meanings of sport & physical activity in prisons.- Sport for Development and Peace: managing movement and mainstream.