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Nominees for the Peace and Sport Awards 2011 |
- International Cricket Council: batting for peace between India and Pakistan
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The ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final in March 2011 between India and Pakistan brought together two of the biggest cricketing nations in the world. It was an event which transcended cricket itself with the diplomatic moves between the Indian and Pakistani governments. It was a unique occasion for the ICC President to bring together Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India with his counterpart in Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to greet the teams at Mohali before an enthusiastic, cheering crowd, in an act of what some termed ‘cricket diplomacy’.
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- Surfing 4 Peace: "People who surf together can live together!"
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Credits: Alessandro Gandolfi
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Surfing 4 Peace (S4P) is a cross-border cooperation initiative that aims to bridge cultural and political barriers between surfers in the Middle East through cooperative events and campaigns around surfing and beach culture. After convincing the Israeli Ministry of Defence to end the ban on surfing equipment in Gaza, S4P launched in 2011 the Gaza Surfer Girl project which provides equipment and encouragement for Gaza’s female first surfers, bringing smile and joy into the lives of many young girls living in harsh conditions. Photojournalist Alessandro Gandolfi captured this image of Shoruq Abo Ghanem, Gaza's first female surfer, practicing on the Gaza beach. Mr. Gandolfi continues to visit Gaza, where he has documented the growth of Gaza surf culture, made possible by donations from Surfing 4 Peace.
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- Skateistan: International Go Skateboarding Day in Afghanistan promotes friendship and solidarity
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Kids who learn skateboarding with the Afghan NGO 'Skateistan' took to the streets of Kabul on 21 June, 2011, to celebrate International Go Skateboarding Day (GSD). Skateboarders around the globe hold events on this annual skateboarding day in recognition of the friendship and solidarity among skateboarders from different countries, ethnic backgrounds, genders and religions. Over 180 boys and girls took part in Kabul, skating a circuit from Skateistan’s park through one of the city’s oldest districts, in a call for peace, brotherhood and unity.
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The International Softball Federation launched this year a project designed to use softball to rebuild hope for young boys and girls (age 15-and-under) in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
200 children were involved in the program named “Esmeraldas Chiquito” and which intention was to take them away from addictions to drugs and alcohol as well as the gangs that are affecting the security of their city.
The program reached unexpected results with international instructors offering their help, 40 girls joining the initiative and some of the youth making it to the pre-selection of the National Softball Team of Ecuador.
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- International Judo Federation
In 2011, the International Judo Federation (IJF) has organized several events related to the IJF Anti-Violence Program and Judo for Peace activities. Today more than 15 countries are concerned by the Judo for Peace program which is growing larger and large every year.
Former child-soldiers, kids, women, handicapped children are the main targets of the programs which are using judo as a development tool based on the fundaments of the sport and the human rights values.
Several Judo for Peace and anti-violence seminars were organized throughout the year in India, Nepal, South Africa and Tanzania.
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- International Association of Athletics Federations
IAAF has developed an educational program adapted to children aged between 6 and 12 years old with the aim of offering a new kind of athletics, which is adapted, accessible to everyone, fun and attractive. This program called “Kids’Athletics” is easily adaptable because it is designed to be feasible everywhere, using equipment that is inexpensive or free.
The entire educational program has been translated into 6 languages to be easily understandable in most countries. It includes training courses for instructors and teaches how to manufacture alternative sports equipment made from waste products, local materials or natural resources available in the immediate environment. It also encourages the creation of non-selective teams.
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The EAC mission is to enable youth to make a difference in their home communities through empowerment through sports. The EAC currently encompasses 8 countries: Zimbabwe, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Sudan.
The main activities are a football tournament, a volleyball tournament, a wheelchair volleyball tournament, plus seminars targeting both technical personnel and youth with themes such as HIV AIDS, sports medicine, refereeing, conflict resolution, leadership training, media training and inter-cultural communication.
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The aim of Budapest Bamako is to build bridges between people and cultures in Africa through road rallies. The two week trans‐Sahara rally was open to everyone without restrictions. Each team was encouraged to develop and manage a small-scale charity project to collect money, supplies and other resources.
The race‘s objective to travel to communities in Africa to learn about them, stopping to help them through direct donations and development projects.
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- The Global Peace Games 2011
Africa Youth Ministries (AYM) organized the ‘Global Peace Games 2011’ in Northern Uganda in partnership with the Peace through Sport Project, an on-going initiative funded by various foreign partners.
Through the 2011 Global Peace Games, AYM helped over 2,000 children and young people who have suffered through war in the communities of Barlonyo, where the LRA rebels massacred 300 innocent civilians on 21 February 2004, and Atyak, where a further 300 innocent people were killed.
The event was aimed to promote non-violence, conflict resolution, peace education and HIV/AIDS prevention. Sessions were organized with opinion leaders, politicians and cultural leaders.
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- Coaches across Continents
Coaches across Continents (CaC) utilises sport for social development. CaC uses football to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged young people and children in developing countries by reinforcing their capacity to make meaningful and relevant life choices.
Working with community-based teachers and leaders, CaC creates locally owned, sustainable partnerships which produce long-term positive change.
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Fight For Peace (FFP) was founded by former English amateur boxer Luke Dowdney MBE in 2000 in the Complexo da Maré, a complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro to prevent children and adolescents becoming enrolled as armed 'foot-soldiers' by the city's drug gangs.
FFP does this through a ‘five pillar’ model which, as well as teaching boxing and martial arts, includes personal development, education, career guidance, support services and youth leadership.
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- PeacePlayers International
PeacePlayers International (PPI) is a global non-profit organization that uses the game of basketball to unite, educate, and inspire young people in divided communities.
Through year-round programs in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Israel and the West Bank, and Cyprus, PPI has cumulatively reached more than 52,000 young people since inception in 2001. PPI’s programs are led by young men and women from the local communities who serve as coaches, leaders and peace builders. Informed by a decade of experience in diverse settings, PPI has developed a consistent methodology for using sport to empower young people to help their communities overcome cycles of conflict and alienation.
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- Touché Sports Development Management
Touché Sports Development Management is actively engaged in developing programs and participating in events that benefit people and society.
Not only does the company’s programs actively encourage the participation of women and children, it also help expatriates and Kuwaiti nationals to communicate together and to participate in a friendly match which gives equal opportunities for people from all walks of life to understand the meaning of sports and how sports will help them to build a better tomorrow.
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The Club Med Foundation’s mission is to encourage company employees to carry out volunteer work and transfer their skills by taking part in solidarity actions in the vicinity of their workplace.
‘Sport Foundation’ schools are based on a simple concept: to introduce children from schools located in socially disadvantaged areas to sport by giving them access to Club Med’s facilities and sports instructors (in Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Malaysia etc.)
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Auderes Sport is a family owned business that provides durable, sustainable, multi sport Arenas in Africa through corporate sponsorship. Currently focusing on Zambia, Auderes work within areas that either lack or suffer from dilapidated facilities. Auderes objective is to provide communities and young people with the means to play sport within a structured and positive environment.
Working with Local NGOs, Auderes ensure regular usage of these sites via a schedule of structured sports training which incorporates life skills, HIV/ AIDS awareness and teaches both teamwork and endeavor.
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Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals’ is a 32-page educational comic book featuring 10 football UN Goodwill Ambassadors (namely Emmanuel Adebayor, Roberto Baggio, Michael Ballack, Iker Casillas, Didier Drogba, Luis Figo, Raúl, Ronaldo, Patrick Vieira, and Zinédine Zidane) who become shipwrecked on an island on their way to playing an ‘all-star’ charity football game.
Whilst on the island, the team has to tackle the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) along their journey towards being rescued. The comic book is primarily aimed at 8-14 year old children and provides a fun interactive way to help them understand, familiarize and reflect about the MDGs as well as inviting them to take action through several activities provided in the adjoining educational guide.
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‘Peace Beyond Borders’ is a documentary covering a sports tournament and peace conference in the borderlands of Kenya, Sudan and Uganda.
Nomadic warriors in this region have been living at odds with each other for years. Cattle raiding and the search for water and grazing land frequently lead to violence ending in loss of human life. In this context sports offers a physical release and brings young warriors together to discuss their conflicts and to find possible solutions.
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Through the inspirational stories of eleven individuals and organizations, this book demonstrates how sport is being used around the world to build peace and promote development. Written by Steve Fleming, Co-founder of Kick4Life, the book champions the increasingly important role that sport can play in tackling the world's most urgent issues.
The book was written over the course of a year with the author conducting extensive interviews with the eleven featured individuals, sport-for-development practitioners and founders of the involved organizations.
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- Tommie Smith
(American Olympic Champion 200m, 1967)
Tommie Smith performs a wide range of works in the Youth Movement program whose mission is to improve the overall health and well-being of youth through structured physical fitness training, wholesome food choices, character development, and mentoring.
Tommie Smith advocates for children by encouraging local governments to provide resources to improve the health/fitness of marginalized children. Tommie participates in town hall meetings that mobilize local communities to support the health of children, promote tolerance, and good citizenship.
He has become a global ambassador for marginalized children by taking groups of American children to France, the United Kingdom, and Greece and exposing them to the world community.
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- Steve Mesler
(American Olympic Champion, Bobsleigh, 2010)
Steve Mesler is the founder of Classroom Champions, a non-profit organization with the goal of connecting under-privileged students throughout America with Olympian and Paralympian role-models via the use of cutting-edge communications technology.
Multiple Olympic and Paralympic medallists and national champions have signed up to communicate with students on a monthly basis via video messages, live video chats and blogs as they train to reach their dreams in the London Olympics next summer.
The athlete’s role is to teach goal setting, perseverance and success-inducing habits by demonstrating the path they have to take in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Gustavo Kuerten is the founder of the Guga Kuerten Institute, a non-profit civil association with purely educational, sporting, social and philanthropic goals.
The Guga Kuerten Institute aims to use sports activities to promote education, leisure, culture and health. 530 children and adolescents from 7-15 years old and 30 disabled people per year attend the Guga Kuerten Institute’s sports and education program called ‘Champions of Life’.
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Muthiah Muralidaran has always been passionate about sport and social development through sport. He is implicated in several social actions in Sri Lanka and has supported the Foundation of Godness since its inception in 1999. Together, their mission is to narrow the gap between urban and rural life in Sri Lanka by tackling poverty through productive activities.
Muralidaran has been actively involved in this work through fund-raising initiatives and spearheading specially designed program including relief aid, building houses and organizing sports coaching workshops and tournaments.
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Initiated by Daouda Karaboué and his fellow handball players Nicolas Ivakno and Damien Kabengele, ‘DK Coeur d’Afrique’ was founded six years ago. The association's mission is to facilitate access to sport for young Ivoirians and to give them access to education and social integration.
Every summer, Daouda Karaboué distributes the material that has been collected throughout the year to his association. He takes the opportunity of his visit to the lagoon to evaluate needs and to consider how to fill them.
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Boris Diaw founded "BABAC'ARDS" with his family in 2005 with the aim of implementing development projects for young people, mainly in Senegal.
Every summer, free basketball camps are organized for children from 10 – 18 years old. Five editions have been held in all major cities in Senegal. The organization also focuses on training instructors who pass on their knowledge and passion to young Senegalese.
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