ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to stimulate new considerations of girls, girlhood and the girling of sport for development and peace (SDP) in order to move research and writing beyond the important mapping exercises and dominated the first phase of work within the SDP sector. These early works explore the possibilities for and the presence of girls and gender within SDP, the chapter offers three suggestions for the next phase of SDP research in an attempt to encourage new considerations. These three suggestions are: the adoption of girl's studies as a theoretical lens; increased critical analysis of popular representations of girls within international development and SDP; and the utilization of larger conceptual reference points for understanding girls and their experiences. This chapter takes SDP research beyond discussions of girl power and the Girl Effect and into the important next phase of research on, with, and about girls in SDP.
