The Sports Journalists' Association (SJA) is running a competition in company with the Laureus Foundation, offering the winner a trip to Rio de Janeiro.
British sportswriters and broadcasters are invited to write or broadcast about an example of sport helping to resolve conflict, whether in Britain or elsewhere in the world.
The entries need to have been published by a print or online outlet, or to have been broadcast on TV or radio.
Laureus, which promotes the use of sport as a means to change society, is eager to encourage sports journalists to look at how sport is helping to resolve conflict.
The foundation supports sports-based projects for young people in places where there is continuing conflict, such as the Middle East, Cyprus and Northern Ireland.
It is also working against forms of discrimination - gender, equality and religious issues- that tend to lead to conflict.
Edwin Moses, the double Olympic gold medal winner, is now Laureus world sports academy chairman. He said: "We feel there is not enough reporting of the way sport can be used as the means to build bridges between communities and people.
"I hope this innovative competition will encourage writers and broadcasters to cover these stories and write about what excellent work is being done."
The prize for the winning journalist will be a trip to the 2014 Laureus world sports awards in Rio in March 2014.
The competition, which opened today, closes on 31 January. Judging will take place in the first two weeks of February. Moses will be on the judging panel along with the SJA's chairman, David Walker.
Entrants should submit their articles or broadcasts by email to SJAWritersPrize@Laureus.net. See terms and conditions here
Brazil
Cyprus
Northern Ireland
Conflict and development
Roy Greenslade
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