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3.6. sEssiON V Developing a Culture of Peace through sport – implementation perspective Keynote addresses Page 25 / 46 hRh Prince Feisal Al hussein, Founder and Chairman, generations for Peace <strong>2nd</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> on Sport for Peace & Development summaries Since its creation, the Generations for Peace Pioneer Certification Programme has been delivered to 526 youth leaders, from 46 countries and territories, across three continents, cascading its impact to 62,000 children. But beyond these positive results, he stressed that no singular best practice or approach will map onto every single conflict scenario. It was therefore necessary to conduct a careful assessment of community-based assets and needs before developing any programme in this field. Moreover, sport is not a cure-all or panacea. As a universal language, and when used correctly, it can provide a powerful contribution to peace-building and development efforts but cannot achieve major change alone. Integration is a key factor for changing individual behaviour. To change this behaviour requires regular repetition, reinforcement and real integration of the values and educational objectives into the sports situation itself. Finally, he argued in favour of measurement and articulation of the sports-related programmes for peace and development in order to share learning. The Generations for Peace Institute was pioneering interdisciplinary research in this field. mr Joël Bouzou, President, Peace and sport In his presentation, Mr Bouzou stressed the importance of mobilising role models as ambassadors for sport and peace. This was successfully achieved by the Peace and Sport initiative “Champions for Peace” with 55 athletes, gathering 68 world champion titles and more than 70 Olympic titles by themselves. Champions are indeed “role models”, modern heroes, who can be a real source of inspiration for young people throughout the entire world. They can also be the best ambassadors for peace at a political level, contributing to changing mentalities of leaders and public authorities and often convincing them to support a project or to incorporate sport into national programmes for peace and development. Print Table of contents
Page 26 / 46 summaries Every athlete can get involved in many ways and according to their means and availability. In this regard, Peace and Sport gives each athlete a framework in which he or she can make a contribution to peace. To have a real impact, it provides them with specific projects that they can lead in their own way. Communication tools are also provided to facilitate the sharing of experiences and ideas. These projects are implemented in cooperation with other members of the community – other actors from the worlds of sport, government, economic life and civil society- and also mobilise the athletes’ own networks. Panel discussion mr John Andrews, senior desk Officer for Asia & Pacific region, united Nations high Commissioner for Refugees (uNhCR) Sport can be very useful in the refugee context as it provides an outlet for the frustrations and very difficult situations they experience in refugee camps. As most refugees come from conflict situations, it’s important not to focus on competitive sport but on fun. As they are also meant to live in a community with people they don’t know, sport is indeed an opportunity to have fun for both players and supporters. Dr Constantinos Filis, Director, international Olympic Truce Centre (iOTC) The Olympic Truce does not promise peace but it does offer hope and inspiration, providing a window of opportunity for dialogue leading to conflict resolution and promoting a culture of understanding, tolerance, fair play and respect for diversity. For all these reasons, he believed that the Olympic Truce should be present not only during Olympic Games but constantly when sport is being exercised. It is important that the true values of sport are promoted through the creation of a culture of peaceful living and tolerance. Among many creative initiatives and programmes, the IOTC was about to publish a booklet gathering recommendations to peace-keepers and practitioners on how best to leverage the peace-keeping value of sport. He also stressed that the effectiveness of the implementation strategy rested on youth education, building on extensive use of social media, involvement of children and youngsters in activities and roundtable discussions. <strong>2nd</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Forum</strong> on Sport for Peace & Development Print Table of contents
Page 1 and 2: 2nd InternatIonal
Page 3 and 4: 1. FOREWORDs 1.1. message from the
Page 5 and 6: Page 4 / 46 Forewords To that aim,
Page 7 and 8: sEssiON ii sport as a Catalyst for
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Page 15 and 16: 3.3. sEssiON ii sport as a Catalyst
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Page 21 and 22: Page 20 / 46 mr Dmitry Chernyshenko
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