POSTED: Friday April 8th 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ANOTHER 8 INTERNATIONAL FEDERATIONS SIGN UP TO USE THEIR SPORT FOR GLOBAL PEACE

London, 7 April 2011 - During the SportAccord Convention taking place in London, another 8 Olympic and non-Olympic international sports federations announced that they are joining the Peace and Sport community to promote peace across the globe.

The Federations are:

-    the International Cycling Union (Union Cycliste Internationale - UCI);

-    the International Mountaineering and Climbing Association (UIAA)

-    the International Triathlon Union (ITU)

-    the Federation International Amateur Sambo (FIAS)

-    the Federation International of Gymnastics (FIG)

-    the International Sepak Takraw Federation (ISTAF)

-    the International Archery Federation (FITA)

-    the International Korfball Federation (IKF).

Through their alliance with the international organization Peace and Sport, the Federations will underpin initiatives they have already undertaken to promote peace, social cohesion and education in disadvantaged areas of the world.

Peace and Sport provides International Federations with a platform for networking, political support and operational cooperation, through which their resources and expertise are optimized and integrated into global peace-building and peace-promotion projects, supported at the highest political level.

By acting in this way, federations develop the practice of their sport in new regions at the same time as coming to the aid of vulnerable communities.

Peace and Sport will help each International Federation to customize its sport in a way that suits local conditions, so that it can be practiced with very little equipment or adapted equipment. These sports will consequently become accessible to youngsters living in even the most disadvantaged environments. This innovative approach enables the values and virtues of sport to be diffused more widely and more effectively, especially to young people, regardless of their living conditions.

The alliance will also involve organizing joint peace-promotion events in various parts of the world.

About Peace and Sport

Peace and Sport, L’Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport is a neutral and apolitical international initiative placed under the High Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Peace and Sport puts sport and its structuring values at the heart of development projects led within communities in crisis around the world. With interventions in post-conflict zones, extremely poor areas or areas lacking social cohesion, Peace and Sport makes sport a vehicle for tolerance, respect, sharing and citizenship at the service of sustainable peace.

Supported by governments, world sport governing bodies, international organizations, major international companies in the private sector and international sports champions, Peace and Sport creates synergies between various different stakeholders to carry out four types of action:

·      Organizing an annual International Forum (next edition: Monaco, 26-28 October 2011)

·      A cooperation platform for sport and peace,

·      The Peace and Sport Awards, to reward individuals and initiatives contributing to peace,

·      Locally-Based Projects; concrete actions in different regions of crisis in the world.

Today, Peace and Sport has operations in Cote d'Ivoire, Burundi, Israel-Palestine, Timor Leste, Colombia and Haiti.

Peace and Sport was founded by Joel Bouzou, current President of the organisation. Mr. Bouzou is an Olympic medallist, world champion of Modern Pentathlon and current Secretary General for the International Union of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM). He is also an Advisor to H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.

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Keywords · Peace and Sport · SportAccord · UCI · UIAA · ITU · FIAS · FIG · ISTAF · FITA · IKF

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Name: Valérie Amant
Organization: Peace and Sport
Email:
Phone: 33 (0) 6 83 37 66 21
URL: http://www.peace-sport.org

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