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. |