ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on three closely connected themes: sport for development, sport and poverty, and sport and the peace process. These themes are a key part of the broader context that is sport, culture and society. The chapter raises four questions about sport that highlight its potential but remain unresolved. These are a question of aid, recognition, poverty and freedom. The chapter draws on a series of Sport in Focus boxes that balance practical insight with key arguments about sport for development and peace (SDP). The four key issues of aid, poverty, recognition and increased freedoms remain challenges that neither capitalism nor sport and capitalism have resolved. The chapter reflects the way in which sport has been linked with the ideas of development, poverty and peace as a soft form of intervention and/or humanitarian aid.
