ABSTRACT
During the latter part of the 20th century and into the 21st century, the United Nations has had a growing and evolving interest in the potential of sport to help achieve various sustainable development goals (SDGs), such as peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and creating just institutions and societies. In this chapter, the authors focus on Sustainable Development Goal 16, which has as its focus to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels” (General Assembly, 2015, p. 14). This chapter examines the intersection of sport with this SDG. The authors first define and discuss the targets associated with SDG 16. They then discuss some of the theoretical foundations related to the intersections of sport and SDG 16, followed by a more detailed discussion of how SDG 16 is being activated within the sport context. This discussion will center upon how sport organizations have engaged the community in promoting the SDG, and how sport organizations can adhere to the SDG in their daily operations.
