ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the findings throughout the book and summarizes how these can be used to consider ways to strategically leverage events for social change and all levels. The rhetoric of legacy of major Games has tended to perpetuate the notion that the event itself will have the desired social effects. Instead, the results presented in this book demonstrate that events do not naturally produce both positive impacts, but rather it is the strategic effort towards intentionally creating and modifying these outcomes that is critical. This chapter brings together the results to show how the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 Parapan American Games might be used as templates for guiding how future Games in other cities around the world can best meet the goal of improving sustainable community participation through strategic leveraging efforts. This is presented alongside inclusion-based literature to note the pros and cons of segregated and inclusive-based programming around a social change agenda.
