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This book explores the complex linkages between power politics of the international arena, the profit-seeking, often elitist and at-times corrupt world of professional international sport, and the promise for harnessing sport to promote human rights, inclusive development, and sustainable peace in a violent world.
List of contents
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures, Tables, and Illustrations
Introduction
The Achilles' Heels of the Olympic Games: Power and Profit
Can sport contribute to sustainable peace?
Sport for peace: Step-by-step
1. What is sport, and play, globally?
Sport and play: A sociological and psychological approach to sport
Indigenous sport, modern sport
Sport and social dynamics: Toward equality, social cohesion, and peace?
Lending legitimacy: When sport becomes politicized
Conclusion
2. A façade of Peace: Sport, power, and profit in a dangerous world
Nationalism, autocracy, and sports-washing: "War minus the shooting"
Sport diplomacy, boycotts, and banishments
Sport into the 21
st century, A globalized façade of peace
Profit: Sport in globalized economies
Conclusion
3. Olympism: A secular religion
Olympism: Myths and myth-making
The historical institutionalism of the Olympic Games
Symbolic politics: Nationalism and sport, then and now
After Beijing 2022: Whither Olympism in a turbulent world
Conclusion
4. The global governance of international sport
The normative foundations of international sport
Advocacy and agenda-setting
Adjudicating sport: Monitoring and accountability
Harm-free, clean sport: A Sisyphean struggle
Conclusion
5. A long association: Sport and human rights
Human rights norms and international sport
Vision vanquished: Abuses of human rights in sport
Toward social justice: Redressing discrimination and marginalization?
"Sport for All:" Realizing access to sport as a human right
Conclusion
6. Pathways from marginalization
Causes of violence: Inequality and injustice, frustration, and extremism
Youth and deadly conflict: Breaking the intergenerational conflict trap
Sport-for-peace: The evolution of practice
A Nexus: Sport, physical and mental well-being, and sustaining peace
Conclusion
7. Pathways to peace: Sport for strengthening social cohesion
Peacebuilding for whom? Challenges of effective practice
Sport in post-conflict contexts
Sport for community-level resilience
Sport, inclusive nationalism, and social cohesion
Conclusion
Step-by-step: Sport, peacebuilding, and the future of peace
Confronting power: Beware of sport evangelism
People before profit: Realizing a rights-based sport regime
Advancing sport's contribution to sustaining peace
Bibliography
Index
About the author
By Timothy D. Sisk
