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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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New Sports for Peace Projects Launched
- Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Nairobi, Kenya - Following a series of sports tournaments in martial arts, hockey, and football, organizer John Gehring spoke to the International Leadership Seminar (ILC) in Nairobi on the how athletic programs can help promote peace.
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Civic Education in Beijing in Preparation for Olympics
- Friday, August 8, 2008
The importance of character education and family culture are manifest in pre-Olympic civic education campaigns in China. Two women’s organizations jointly sponsor women professors lecturing in the main districts of Beijing. One is the Beijing Municipal Women’s Federation and the other the Women’s Sub-committee of the Beijing Committee of China Democratic League, which is comprised mainly of intellectuals.
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EuroPhoenix Football Workshop in Austria
- Thursday, July 24, 2008
Seebenthstein, Austria - The European football team EuroPhoenix came together for a football workshop in Seebenstein, Austria. In total, 35 young adults gathered in the seminar center from July 19 to 24, 2008.
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Sports Educators Lead Basketball Camps
- Monday, July 14, 2008
Tierra Nueva, Guatemala - More than 200 children participated in a special sports activity led by two sports educators, Diesa Seidel and Janna Gullery, as well as by Mr. Luis Navarro, coordinator of Moving Dreams, a project of Pro Paz. This took place in the Settlement Tierra Nueva 1 in Guatemala.
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US Women Take Peace Queen Cup
- Saturday, June 21, 2008
With a 92-minute goal, the US women's soccer [football] team defeated Canada to win the Peace Queen Cup on June 21. The finalists and their scores were the same as in the inaugural tournament in 2006.
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UN Year of Sports and Physical Education Can Help Promote Peace
- Thursday, June 5, 2008
UPF offers various sports programs in promotion of peace in support of the UN Year of Sports and Physical Education.
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Play Soccer, Make Peace
- Sunday, December 9, 2007
Play Football, Make Peace has run pilot programs for young people in Gaza, Israel and Jordan. The power of sports to bring down borders was shown when young people from the separate areas of Gaza had a unique chance to meet each other and compete through a Play Soccer [Football] Make Peace tournament.
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Students Play Basketball for Peace in Haifa
- Thursday, December 6, 2007
More than 700 students from four middle schools in Israel took part in a Dec. 1-6, 2007 interreligious program in the Haifa region of Carmel that promoted friendship and good sportsmanship..
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Iraqi Athletes Living in Jordan Beat Odds (report & video)
- Sunday, November 25, 2007
In contradiction to the idea that Iraq is permanently mired in religiously-based violence, a soccer team of Iraqi refugees living in Amman, Jordan, proved that faith is not an enemy to peace.
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In the News: Guyana Athlete Wins Medals at Peace Sports Festival
- Saturday, July 14, 2007
Guyanan national junior 100 and 200-metre sprinter, Goddis Accra, returned home Thursday after winning the 200m and placing second in the 100m at the annual Inter-Religious Peace Sports festival in South Korea.
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Concert at Interreligious Peace Sports Festival
- Friday, July 6, 2007
On July 6, 2007, the Interreligious Peace and Sports Festival (IPSF) presented a concert in the recently completed cultural center at Sun Moon University in Asan, Korea.
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Faith, Sports and Peace
- Monday, July 2, 2007
The 2007 International and Interreligious Peace Sports Festival brought together more than 1,240 participants from some 67 nations and 10 major religions, each with certain dietary laws and daily observances. Held at the spacious Sun Moon University in Asan, South Korea, the IPSF incorporates practical ways to honor the participants' faith teachings into every aspect of the conference.
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