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As part of Peace and Sport’s ongoing efforts to use sport as a tool for peace around the world, the organisation will this year hold the 2017 Friendship Games in Bujumbura, Burundi from 11 to 13 August. Organised in association with the National Olympic Committee...
The Herculis Meeting held on 21 July in Monaco invites Peace and Sport to meet athletes to tell them about the importance of sport as a tool for peace. In partnership with the Monaco Athletics Federation, a #WhiteCard operation took place this morning. A number...
Peace and Sport, the politically-neutral organization aimed at promoting sport as a tool for peace, called for large mobilization to develop peace through sport policies during the Sixth International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for...
Sport can make a powerful contribution to tourism, and sport tourism is a good opportunity to promote peace. For this reason, Peace and Sport, the politically-neutral organisation aimed at promoting sport as a tool for peace will attend Expo in Astana, Kazakhstan on...
Yesterday was the opening of “Athletes”, an exhibition of street artist C215 in Paris under the high patronage of Mrs Laura Flessel, French Minister of Sports and Peace and Sport Champion for Peace. This exhibition is curated by Thibault Sarda, former member of the...
Peace and Sport is delighted to present its April6 fourth edition report dedicated to the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. Since 2013 when the United Nations declared the 6th of April as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace,...
©Veloimages / BORA-hansgrohe Just before the start of the Tour de France in Düsseldorf, a tribute was paid to Helmut Kohl for his historic handshake with François Mitterrand and for his contribution to Peace. “This celebration of Franco-German friendship at the...
For the third year Peace and Sport, the politically-neutral organisation aimed at promoting sport as a tool for peace, is partnering with the Fédération Monégasque de Kickboxing for the Monte-Carlo Fighting Trophy in Monaco on the 30th of June. In 2016, with the...
St. Lawrence High School (SLHS), Kolkata, India, in association with their alumni St. Lawrence Old Boys’ Association (SLOBA) are organising an international drawing and painting competition ‘Expression 2017’ on Olympic Day, Friday, 23 June 2017. Participants from St....
Jean-Baptiste Alaize is a Paralympic athlete and Champion for Peace since 2016 for his great involvement promoting the values of sport as a tool for peace. His inspiring life experience and his determination to overcome visible and invisible wounds of war propelled...
Peace and Sport, the politically-neutral organisation aimed at promoting sport as a tool for peace, has joined forces with the Fédération Monégasque de Volleyball and the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), to organize a #WhiteCard activation at the FxPro...
Peace And Sport is overjoyed to announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with two ‘Act for what Matters’ 2016 project-winners: Sacred Sports Foundation Inc.(SSF), located in Saint Lucia, and Many Hands One Nation (MAHON), based in Timor Leste. Mr. Joël...