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Dear Peace and Sport’s Friends, It is now time to close this wonderful edition of the 2020 Peace and Sport Awards. Over the last five days, incredible initiatives using sport for the benefit of communities have been awarded. These initiatives have proven the unifying...
The 2020 edition of the Peace and Sport Awards appointed the Argentinian soccer prodigy and captain of FC Barcelona, Lionel Messi, as Champion for Peace of the Year. The Champion for Peace of the Year Award rewards an athlete who has led a significant and sustainable...
The Olympic Channel is a web television created by the International Olympic Committee. Since its launch in 2014, it has broadcast live events, documentaries and TV archives related to the Olympic Games. “Olympic Day Workout” is an online campaign organized to...
After 5 days of voting, it was the Kosovo National Olympic Committee that won the highest number of votes on the Peace and Sport online platform, gaining them the “APRIL6 Initiative of the Year” Award Every year, the Kosovo National Olympic Committee carries out...
The NGO TIBU-Maroc’s “Sa7ti Friyadti” Program the is the New Winner of the “Innovative Action of the Year” Award! Acting in 14 cities in Morocco, TIBU Maroc uses the power of sport to create innovative social welfare solutions in the field of education,...
ISF Cambodia’s Football for Change Outreach Project Wins the Peace and Sport Award “Sport for Development and Peace Program of the Year”! Over the last 13 years, the NGO Indochina Starfish Foundation (ISF) Cambodia has been providing education to...
The 2020 Peace and Sport Awards are almost here! Ahead of the digital celebration, H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco invites athletes, civil-society organizations and institutions to keep promoting the values of sport, as a universal language to build peaceful,...
“In games of sport, some things are open to interpretation but others, like the actions of the Paris Saint Germain (PSG)-Istanbul Basaksehir match referee, are unacceptable. Identifying someone for whatever it may be – skin colour or origins – plunges mankind...
Using Football as a tool, the two organizations will facilitate education, training and responsibility amongst youth and promote peace and dialogue. Peace and Sport and FC Lokomotive Leipzig will implement joint social actions within the supporter’s community and...
Peace and Sport is delighted to present the initiatives nominated for the 2020 Peace and Sport Awards for their remarkable contribution to peace, dialogue and social change in the world through sport. The “APRIL6 Initiative of the Year”, the “Sport for Development and...
Peace and Sport and the Global Esports Federation (GEF) have decided to join forces with the overarching aim to promote and reinforce the role of Esports as a tool for social cohesion, social development and peaceful coexistence among communities. The partnership...
Fundación FC Barcelona – Barça Foundation is two times Peace and Sport Award winner! In 2017, it won the “Foundation of the Year” Award, and it received the “Special Jury Prize” in 2019. Through this video from the Fundación FC Barcelona General Manager, Mrs...