What is S.A.V.E.?

S.A.V.E. – The Sport Alternative Visions Endeavour – is an organisation setting out to regularly pursue and explore alternatives in conceiving of sport, sport governance, and sporting life and institutions in ways different than the secret, unaccountable, non-inclusive, corporatised model currently offered by, but not limited to, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the world governing body of the world's most popular sport (FIFA, and its regional confederations such as CONCACAF and UEFA) in particular, and world governing bodies in general.

A recent Panorama, ‘Buying the Games,’ shown on BBC One, on 4 August 2004, began to get at some of the systemic, pandemic failures and faults of our current international sport governance systems, and demonstrated the need for an academic/university based “institute” for examining various levels of challenging and critiquing global sport institutions and leadership; from submitting proposals on how various processes, events, and issues might be differently thought of or approached, to conceiving of entirely alternative governing bodies which might be possessed of institutional capabilities the current governing bodies, by their very form, cannot offer..

S.A.V.E. will attempt to draw upon the expertise, experience and ideas of experts, writers, journalists, activists, athletes, fans, and others around the globe in order to continuously offer alternatives to the way sport is, from a local to global perspective.