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Sport has become a world language, a common denominator that breaks down all the walls, all the barriers. It is a worldwide industry whose practices can have a widespread impact. Most of all, it is a powerful tool for progress and development. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (2011) As we go to press, the United Nation’s Second International Forum on Sport, Peace, and Development, held in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee, is concluding in Geneva, Switzerland. A now almost inescapable phrase—sport and development—refers to what is popularly imagined to be one of the most promising trajectories for international politics, as illustrated in Ban Ki-moon’s quote. It is also seen as one of the most promising trajectories for practice and research across sport-related disciplines: sport psychology, sport sociology, health promotion, and disability studies. One need only google “sport ” and “development ” to quickly gain an impres-sion of the breadth of issues that humanitarian activists and activist-scholars seek to address via sport. Sport and development projects target, for example, HIV/AIDS, disasters, conflicts, health, poverty, crime, education, and women’s rights. The imme