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At the turn of the millennium, the United Nations (UN) sought a renewed and more broadly defined approach to development. As part of these efforts, the UN began to incorporate sport within official development policies and apparatuses, including the Millennium Development Goals and the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace. Drawing upon primary research conducted at the United Nations archives, this article seeks to address a gap in the literature pertaining to the history of sport and development by exploring the UN's use of sport for development since its formation in the 1940s. In highlighting the use of sport in post–World War II reconstruction, decolonization, and peace-building, this article helps to illustrate a much longer history of sport for development within the UN and demonstrates how sport has long been connected to dominant development theories and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
