Qatar- Save the Dream holds 2nd Imagine Peace Youth Camp
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Youth attending the camp at International Olympic Academy in Ancient Olympia in Greece.
DOHA: On the eve of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, around 40 young people from over 20 countries gathered last week at International Olympic Academy in Ancient Olympia to engage in interactive workshops and sport activities to promote equality and peace.
They also learnt about how sport plays an important role in peace and conflict resolution.
The ‘2nd Imagine Peace Youth Camp"; was organised by International Olympic Truce Centre (IOTC) in collaboration with British Council and Save the Dream as educational partners and under the auspices of the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace.
Save the Dream, a global programme to promote and protect the purity of sport for young people, and IOTC formalised cooperation last year through a memorandum of understanding.
Since then, Save the Dream — an initiative of International Centre for Sport Security and Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) and supported by technology partner Ooredoo — has been contributing to the event as an educational partner.
At the birthplace of the Olympism, Save the Dream has contributed to the initiative by delivering a workshop on sport in building intercultural understanding.
Also, thanks to its technological partner, Ooredoo, Save the Dream has made it possible for 10 participants, including young refugees and students from Middle East countries, to participate in the learning mobility opportunity.
Pedro Velázquez, Director, Save the Dream, said: 'By participating in the initiative, Save the Dream wants to empower youth multipliers to better understand how sport can restore dignity, dialogue and mutual understanding in societies where violence, discrimination and conflicts have dramatically jeopardised the human condition.
'As a movement of people and organisations who love sport and believe that sport values can protect this dream, Save the Dream aims to provide youth with an avenue of hope and use the values of sport as a bridge to promote greater understanding in society.”
Constantinos Filis, Director, IOTC, said: 'Over the past five days, we were given the opportunity to come closer together to learn the characteristics of different cultures and religions, coexist with persons of different backgrounds, ideologies and, possibly, different outlooks.
'We had the opportunity to get to know what is different, special and unique in each of us. And, through these differences, to realise how much we share, how identical our concerns are and how much we want a better world.”
Working with organisations across sport, art, media, technology and society, Save the Dream aims to empower youth through the power of sport values, promoting inter-cultural dialogue and social innovation.
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