This book details sport-based qualitative research that focuses on or involves individuals and communities in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions around the world, along with insights regarding how best to do this work. This book was originally published as a special issue of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.

Introduction: Sport in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions: an introduction 1. The methodological dance: critical reflections on conducting a cross-cultural comparative research project on 'Sport for Development and Peace' 2. Sport for development and peace: a call for transnational, multi-sited, postcolonial feminist research 3. Football as a terrain of hope and struggle: beginning a dialogue on social change, hope and building a better world through sport 4. Engaging the field through retrospective methods: a Cambodian story 5. Getting lost as a way of knowing: the art of boxing within Shape Your Life 6. The role of sport for youth amidst trauma and chaos 7. 'I'm proud of what I achieved; I'm also ashamed of what I done': a soccer coach's tale of sport, status, and criminal behaviour 8. Sport as a tool for development and peace: tackling insecurity and violence in the urban settlement Cazucä, Soacha, Colombia 9. Contextual and individual factors influencing the implementation effectiveness of sport for development and peace programmes: a comparative case study of conflict relief in Lebanon and Ukraine 10. 'Look at what we can do with all the broken stuff!' Youth agency and sporting creativity in sites of war, conflict and disaster 11. Changing methods and methods of change: reflections on qualitative research in Sport for Development and Peace