Sports Programs
Athletic competitions and running events bring together people of diverse backgrounds to promote good sportsmanship and build friendship and good will. For suggestions about how to organize a one-day community sports event, click here.
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Sports Programs
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UPF-Italy Works toward Peace through Sports
- Sunday, June 26, 2016
Monza, Italy—Peacebuilding through sport was discussed in a conference and demonstrated in a football tournament.
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Peace Cup in Switzerland Rewards Fair Play
- Sunday, May 8, 2016
Novazzano, Switzerland—A children’s soccer tournament that rewards friendly and sportsmanlike behavior was held in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino.
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UN Magazine Features “Football for Peace” Project
- Monday, August 24, 2015
Turin, Italy—The current issue of UNICRI’s Freedom From Fear Magazine features “Football for Peace,” a project that was co-organized by UPF-Israel and Italy in March.
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Indonesians Walk the Peace Road 2015
- Sunday, August 9, 2015
Jakarta, Indonesia—On August 9, Indonesia was the seventh country in Asia to host the Peace Road 2015.
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‘Best Values of Sport’ Shown at Italian Peace Cup
- Saturday, June 27, 2015
Monza, Italy—Soccer players representing more than 15 nationalities, including refugees newly arrived in Italy, competed for the UPF Peace Cup.
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Young Russians Train for “Europe-Asia” Half-Marathon
- Monday, June 1, 2015
Yekaterinburg, Russia—Ten Russian teens are receiving free professional training for a half-marathon associated with the “Europe-Asia” Marathon.
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UPF Israel and Italy Collaborate on Youth Soccer Exchange Project
- Thursday, March 19, 2015
Turin, Italy—An Arab-Jewish soccer team, comprised of fourteen (7 Arab, 7 Jewish) 11-year-old boys, visited Turin, Italy from March 19-26, 2015, to participate in the “Un Calcio per la Pace” (“Football for Peace”) project.
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Russians Support Friendship of Nations in Sports Events
- Sunday, November 16, 2014
Russia - Under the theme "We Support the Friendship of Nations!" sports activities took place in many cities of Russia on Nov. 16, 2014, the UN International Day for Tolerance.
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Super-Marathon Aims to Promote Baltic Dialogue
- Saturday, September 20, 2014
St. Petersburg, Russia - An international group of long-distance runners set out from St. Petersburg on Sept. 20, 2014, to “run for peace” in a super-marathon through four nations bordering the Baltic Sea.
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Ecuadorians Beat Italy in Finals of UPF-Italy Peace Cup
- Saturday, June 28, 2014
Monza, Italy - The ninth annual Peace Cup concluded in June 2014 with the final matches of an eight-team inter-ethnic football tournament in Monza and with women's volleyball and men's football matches that included teams of inmates of the San Vittore Prison in Milan.
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3rd Annual Children's Peace Cup Held in Switzerland
- Thursday, May 1, 2014
Ticino, Switzerland - UPF-Ticino held the third annual Peace Cup children's soccer tournament on May 1, 2014, in cooperation with the soccer association of Novazzano.
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Young Russians Promote Friendship and Goodwill at the Olympic Games
- Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Sochi, Russia - A team of Young Ambassadors for Peace from Moscow traveled to Sochi to spend Feb. 11 and 12, 2014 at the Olympic Games, visiting sites and making new friends.
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