ABSTRACT
The increasing prominence of sport in the public policy agenda of advanced industrial countries is a characteristic of late twentieth-century politics. The idea of sport-in-development, initially linked to the domestic policy arena, has increasingly been drawn into wider visions of international development. A number of high profile statements including the Magglingen Recommendations of 2003 and 2005, and United Nations (UN) Resolution 58/5 have further increased already high expectations concerning the capacity of sport to deliver a range of development goals. Sport-in-development initiatives range from individual projects that are moulded to specific problems (such as addressing the integration of child soldiers into particular post-conflict societies) to broader programmes that have a wider remit or geographical spread (for instance, HIV/Aids awareness education across continents and a vague awareness that sport can promote economic development).
