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Press Release- “Celebration of Olympism” and promoting the Olympic Truce in Nepal
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate publication.
The Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC) and Youth UNESCO Club in collaboration with the Olympic Truce Peace Campaign Network (OTPCaN) will be hosting youths and community representatives from across Nepal and around the world in a forum themed “Celebration of Olympism” from 16th -20th July 2014 at the Olympics Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal.
This forum aims at promoting the values of Olympism and the spirit of friendship and integration the Olympic Games encourages. The forum 4-day forum which starts with a welcome reception evening on the 15th of July will be hosted by the NOC. Other activities of the forum include cultural display and tailored activities aimed to encourage youths and communities initiatives by using sports, education, tourism and other positive means to promote peaceful coexistence.
Sessional workshops are also scheduled to be facilitated by a team of international facilitators from New Zealand, Netherlands and Jordan. This sessions will train, coach and inspire all participants of this forum in strategies and approaches which they can implement after the forum in their respective communities to promote peaceful coexistence. Furthermore, strategies and approaches as utilized and promoted by the Olympic Truce will be taught to further enhance peaceful coexistence as well as showcase how these approaches can be used to create platforms for increasing youth involvement, social enterprise and responsible citizenship.
The Olympic Truce Peace Campaign promotes sustainable Peace and development in different countries using sports, education, tourism, culture exchange and several other community activities, while ensuring there is true process of Truce leading to the Olympic Games in 2016 and beyond. The Olympics games was traditionally used as a means of preventing conflict and creating peace between nations at war, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and United Nations (UN) have transposed this ancient peace ethic to the modern Games. And in order to emphasize the importance of the Olympics tradition, a dozen youths from all over the world were trained by the UNESCO team in London during the Olympics (2012) in several approaches to community peace building and means of promoting the Olympics peace history and process.
The Campaign Manager for OTPCaN, New Zealand based Dolapo says, “It is envisaged that the aims of this workshop will echo and inspire participants to develop initiatives which will create opportunities that can empower young people and community to create positive change.”
Participants of the workshop will have the opportunity to be a part of the Olympic Truce Network and get involved in other peace building initiatives and programs internationally.
For more information and to register please email: youthsunescoclub@gmail.com
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For further Information, interview and photo opportunities, please contact:
Contact Person(s): Rimesh Khanal
Email: youthsunescoclub@gmail.com
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