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6 Ambassadors and Champions for Peace
engage with the local Media
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Sky Dive Dubai and UAE Armed Forces
fly the Peace and Sport message sky high with a jump over The Palm
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| Hisham El Gerrouj |
Today, Monday 22nd of April, the Peace and
Sport Dubai Forum 2013 Organising Committee is holding a press conference in
anticipation of the first time this event for peace through sport takes place
in the Middle East under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai
Sports Council. The Peace and Sport Dubai Forum 2013 will start tomorrow,
Tuesday 23rd and run through to Wednesday 24th of April
at the JW Marquis in Dubai.
The press conference will include an update on the Forum
proceeding by Dr. Ahmad Al Sharif, Chairman of the Forum Organizing Committee
as well as Mr. Joël Bouzou, President and Founder of the Peace and Sport “L’Organisation
pour la Paix par le Sport”. The two will be followed by a Q&A session with
6 of the 11 attending Peace and Sport Ambassadors and Champions including
Moroccan running star Hisham El Gerrouj, Rania Elwani Egyptian Swimming
Champion, Honey Thalijeh, captain of the Palestinian Women’s National Team,
Danish Sprinter, Wilson Kipketer, Iranian Badminton player Kaveh Mehrabi as
well as Captain Fareed Lafta, from Iraq.
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| Mr. Joël Bouzou, President and Founder of the Peace and Sport |
Themed, “Building Sustainable Peace
through Sport, Together.”, the Forum program will offer a wide range of
workshops and plenary discussions focusing on strategies to encourage Arab and
global leaders to build sustainable peace through sport policies, and to
showcase opportunities for sport-based initiatives to become active as a major
factor in shaping societies and fostering the dialogue between nations in
conflict.
The opening workshop, titled ‘Leading
the way’, will define the basis and the format of the two-day Forum starting
from leaders’ visions for global peace to create open and interactive discussions
to foster sustainable solutions. All elements of the Forum are designed to
offer a platform on which stakeholders can present their case studies as well
as offer a unique networking opportunity between local, regional and global
high-level decision-makers. The Opening Ceremony will be held on April 23rd
at 20:00.
One of the special sessions that will be run in
the two day event will revolve on how sporting events can be used as soft diplomacy between
conflicting parties. A recent example to the success of such discipline is the 2011
Qatar Peace and Sport Table Tennis Cup and ICC World Championship Semi Final
between India and Pakistan.
Jump for Peace
Additionally, Members of Sky Dive Dubai and the
UAE National Army jumped for Peace, carrying the flag of the United Arab
Emirates along with the Peace and Sport Dubai Forum 2013 banner over the Palm
Jumeirah, Dubai on April 20. The initial event was initially postponed for bad
weather last month. The jump is one of over thirty accompanying activities that
took place over the past 6 weeks around the UAE in support of the Peace and
Sport Forum in order to spread the message of building sustainable Peace
through the use of Sport. 
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