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.
- Written by: UPF - Russia
Ufa, Russia - Young Peace Ambassadors have taken up the "Run Hour” program that began in Yekaterinburg in 2008. On April 4, the sports event started in Yekaterinburg at 2:00 pm, and then the baton was picked up in Ufa.
- Written by: UPF - Russia
Yekaterinburg and Ufa, Russia - Youth Ambassadors for Peace in Yekaterinburg have been promoting the monthly "Run Hour" sports initiative since 2008. Since then the project has spread to more cities in the Urals, and athletes in Ufa, the capital of the Bashkir Republic of the Russian Federation, took the program over.
- Written by: Heiner Handschin, Secretary General, UPF-Europe II
Bern, Switzerland - Former Swiss Federal President and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Hon. Mr. Adolf Ogi, joined the ranks of the Universal Peace Federation's Ambassadors for Peace at a gathering in Fraubrunnen.
- Written by: UPF International
As part of the worldwide celebrations of the International Day of Peace 2010, the Universal Peace Federation designed a one-day Sports for Peace program that integrates sports and education in order to promote peaceful communities. Several UPF chapters organized athletic tournaments as part of their celebrations of the International Day of Peace.
- Written by: John Gehring, Sports for Peace
The following are guidelines for a discussion session that can be part of the educational component of a Sports for Peace program.
- Written by: John Gehring, Universal Peace Federation
Viewing sports as a potential instrument for peace, the Universal Peace Federation designed a one-day Sports for Peace program that integrates sports and education in order to promote peaceful communities.
- Written by: UPF - Russia
Pokrovskoye, Russia - A training-workshop called “Magic Land” in the village of Pokrovskoye in the Sverdlovsk region of central Russia included educational activities, games, sports, music, theatrical productions and service activities in August 2010.
- Written by: UPF - Russia
Moscow, Russia - On July 14, in school №1417, a children’s sports celebration was organized on the occasion of the summer holidays. Children from neighboring houses and from neighboring districts (those who were not scared away by the unusual Moscow heat) came to spend time together in a most pleasant and fruitful way.
- Written by: Dmitry Samko, UPF-Russia
Parnu, Estonia - As global attention focused on the FIFA World Cup in July, youth from six nations converged on Estonia for the Parnu Summer Cup in the spirit of "Play Football Make Peace."
- Written by: UPF - Russia
Revda, Russia - On June 16 on the football field of school №10, children from the summer camp “Major’s Labor squads” participated in a Play Football Make Peace tournament.
- Written by: Fosayo Irikura, Women's Federation for World Peace-Jordan
Amman, Jordan - Sponsors are invited to help underwrite a four-day tournament and character-education program for teams of Jordanian youth as well as Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese living in or near Amman.
- Written by: UPF - Brazil