Peace and Sport

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Peace and Sport, "L’Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport” is a neutral and apolitical international initiative based in the Principality of Monaco and under the patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Peace and Sport puts sport and its values at the heart of local development projects conducted within communities in crisis around the world. Exercising its missions in post-conflict zones, areas of extreme poverty or lacking social cohesion, Peace and Sport makes sport a vehicle for tolerance, respect, sharing and citizenship.

Supported by governments, world sport governing bodies, international organizations, major international private companies and international sports champions, Peace and Sport carries out the following actions:

organizes an annual International Forum,
gives the Peace and Sport Awards, to reward individuals and initiatives contributing to peace,
runs locally based projects; concrete actions in regions of crisis,
organizes Champions for Peace, a group of athletes committed to serving world peace through sport.

In 2011, Peace and Sport had operations in Ivory Coast, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel-Palestine, Timor Leste, Colombia and in Haiti.

Peace and Sport was founded by Joel Bouzou, President of the organisation, an Olympic medallist, world champion of Modern Pentathlon and as of 2013 Secretary General for the International Union of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM), an advisor to Prince Albert II of Monaco, and the President of the World Olympians Association.

Peace and Sport Ambassadors are: Hicham El Guerrouj, Prince Nawaf Faisal Fahd Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, Mario Pescante, Wilfried Lemke, Sir Philip Craven, Mikhail Prokhorov, Adolf Ogi, Adnane Houdrouge, Major General Gianni Gola, Dr. Yang Ho Cho, Amir Dossal, Alain Leroy, Pál Schmitt, Snežana Samardžić-Marković and AS Monaco football club.

Alexandra Kosteniuk is a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport.

Champion for Peace

Champions for Peace are top-level sports champions who are either still active or have retired from their sports career who wish to help disadvantaged communities through sport. They are role-models, heroes and a source of inspiration for young people throughout the world.

The Champions for Peace initiative was created by Peace and Sport to offer them a structure for communal expression and action to support sports projects at the service of peace and human and social development.

They give some of their, popularity, their sporting experience and skill or resources to help projects for peace-promotion and peace-building through sport. They also participate in raising awareness among decision-makers in politics and the private sector to change attitudes. This collective action ensures the efficiency of their undertaking and their resolve is increased. The Champions for Peace club is a flexible structure where each athlete can participate according to his or her own availability and desire.

Among them :

References

↑ "Novak becomes Champion for Peace". Retrieved 8 July 2015.
↑ "Paula Radcliffe: A world champion finds peace and sport in Monaco". Retrieved 8 July 2015.
↑ "WILSON KIPKETER, AS A CHAMPION FOR PEACE, CONFIRMS ATTENDANCE AT SANLAM CAPE TOWN MARATHON EVENT". Retrieved 8 July 2015.

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