Sports Diplomacy: Acceptance and Encompassing of A Political Strategic Concept

In the past century, based on its fluid nature and democratization process, politics has entered in new areas which they were not relevant before or not conceived as the political. Sports area is one of these new political arenas. In result of popularization, borders of sports and politics are changed and interfered. This phenomenon made joint territories for both of them. Diplomacy and diplomatic procedures are one of these territories that sports internationalization inevitably brought them to this arena and made recent and strategic concept of sports diplomacy. But despite the concept common make sense, its definitions and borders are not determined or explained. The study is to answer this question that what is sports diplomacy? Thus, we conceptually analyzed and explained the subject with exploratory approach and used documentary method to collect the needed data. 15 tools, appeared by objective and lived grounds, that can be used to accelerate development, to force soft power, to establish platforms for dialogue in multi-cultural societies and to promote peaceful relations between states.