Sri Lanka emerges from three decades of conflict. This is a study of sport-for-development and peace (SDP) initiatives in the country. It examines the extent to which the selected cases use sport as a tool and ascertains of their contribution to peace and development in the country suffered by decades-long conflict. Main conclusion and lessons learn include: (1) it is being positioned as a development and peacebuilding goal, with a limited sense; (2) it is that nature of sport in connecting individual to the sense of community building divided by conflict. (3) it is of contributing to...