The World Forum
Sports for Peace
 
The World Forum believes that Sport is a universal language and can be a powerful and passionate vehicle to promote peace, tolerance and understanding in the world. Through its power to bring people together across boundaries, cultures and religions, it can promote tolerance and reconciliation.

The World forum strongly believes that Sport can help re-initiate dialogue and open a channel of dialogue when other channels were struggling. This is evident from the various examples such as "cricket diplomacy" played a key role in breaking the ice between India and Pakistan on a number of occasions and paved the way forward for dialogue. Other examples include North and South Korea have merging their athletes into a common team for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and competing together. Table tennis set the stage for the resumption of diplomatic ties between China and the USA in 1971; Football has also brought people together in many ways and channel their energies positively rather than through war.
The core values integral to sportsmanship make sport a valuable method of promoting peace, from the local to the international scale. Sport can be used as an effective delivery mechanism for education about peace, tolerance, and respect for opponents, regardless of ethnic, cultural, religious or other differences. Its inclusive nature makes sport a good tool to increase knowledge, understanding and awareness about peaceful co-existence.
The World Forum believes that sports is a very effective way of bringing people together specially among the youth and supports various initiatives and organizations in this regard particularly the efforts by the United Nations.
The World Forum would support and organize events, championships, tournaments as well as campaigns to promote sports in the world.

 

 

 

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