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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Lord Michael Bates, patron of the London 2012 Olympic Truce Peace Ambassadors in the House of Lords for the London 2012 Games. </em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The campaign started in the<strong> Beijing Olympics in 2008</strong> supporting the <strong>Save Darfur Campaign led by Mia Farrow</strong>. In 2012, <strong>Lord Michael Bates (UK House of Lords, Walk for Truce )</strong> was the <strong>London Olympic 2012</strong> Peace Campaign patron of the network. At the last Olympics, the <strong>Brazil 2016</strong> campaign was a 25th Anniversary legacy project of the <strong>IIPT (International Institute of Peace through Tourism). </strong><em>And now ...</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/london-2012-olympic-peace-campaign/london-2012-unesco-olympic-youth-peace-ambassadors-training-assistance-programme">Final Report of the Olympic Truce London 2012 Campaign</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/olympic-truce-peace-ambassadors">Olympic Truce Peace Ambassadors Map </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/london-2012-olympic-peace-campaign">Go to the London 2012 Olympic Truce Peace Campaign Archive</a></span><br /></p>
<p><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/brazil-2016-olympic-truce-peace-campaign"> Go to the Brazil 2016 Olympic Truce Campaign Archive </a></p>
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<p>Gordon Sillence - Olympic Truce Peace Campaign International Director, Janela Aberta 21 Education Centre for Sustainable Development, Ecotrans Network for the Development of Sustainable tourism Contact <a href="mailto:gordon.destinet@ecotrans.de?subject=">gordon.destinet@ecotrans.de</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>2022-05-22T15:17:01Ztag:destinet.eu,2022-05-22:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-networkhttps://destinet.eu/misc_/EnviroWindows/Site.gifECOTRANSTourism2030Afro Global Youth Exchange PTY LTDtag:destinet.eu,2014-09-24:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/afro-global-youth-exchange-pty-ltd2014-09-24T09:49:40ZVictor MutangaVictor Mutanga<p align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>COMPANY PROFILE</b></span></p>
<p><b>INTRODUCTION</b></p>
<p>Afro Global Youth Exchange is a Pan African, youth-driven organization that specializes in providing inter-cultural exchange programmes for young social entrepreneurs and sports community leaders from Africa’s conflict areas. The organization’s goal is to foster a commitment to young people that will promote regional sovereignty, social consciousness, pro-social friendships, strong interpersonal skills, and reassert a sense of hope in the future.</p>
<p>Afro Global Youth Exchange’s programmes are in direct response to the vision set by Africa’s founding fathers and mothers; A vision of an Integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in global arena.</p>
<p><b>A school of thought postulate- the wealth of a nation can be measured by the active involvement of youths in developing a sustainable economy.</b></p>
<p><b>VISION</b></p>
<p>To be an accelerator of unity, peace and development in Africa.</p>
<p><b>MISSION</b></p>
<p>The mission of Afro Global Youth Exchange is to build resilient African societies through social entrepreneurship and sport. We are committed to overcoming colonial legacies of so many fragmented borders across the continent by creating platforms where Africans can interact, truly understand each other, establish friendships, find solutions to the problems facing the continent and promote world peace.</p>
<p><b>KEYS TO SUCCESS</b></p>
<p>There are four key elements we will accomplish to succeed:</p>
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<li>Learning about what works and improving existing models.</li>
<li>Building a strong support base with the private sector, government and civil society locally and internationally.</li>
<li>Mobilizing new resources, both regionally and globally.</li>
<li>Utilize the unique expertise of both the founder and value network partners to offer increased value to the continent.</li>
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<p><b>SERVICES:</b></p>
<p><b>INTER-CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES FOR YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS</b></p>
<p>The exchange programmes provide a platform for dialogue, collaboration and partnerships across industries, sectors, countries and regions among youth entrepreneurs in Africa. A major objective of these exchange programmes is to cultivate business and social networks as well as examine opportunities and challenges for youth entrepreneurs and governments to work effectively together to promote innovation and achieve scale and momentum for youth employment, economic growth, peace and development in Africa through entrepreneurship.</p>
<p><b>OLYMPIC TRUCE WORKSHOPS</b></p>
<p>The Olympic Truce has survived since 776 BC. The aim of the Olympic Truce workshops is to create an understanding of the inspirational power of sport through the ideals of Olympism and the Olympic Truce, to ensure that this ancient peace accord will play a role in promoting peace, dialogue and reconciliation amongst future generations. The Founder and President of Afro Global Youth Exchange is a UNESCO-Olympic Truce Youth Peace Ambassador representing South Africa and he is currently the Regional Coordinator for the Olympic Truce Peace Campaign Network. Our programmes and workshops are built on four pillars:</p>
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<li>Lectures and workshops;</li>
<li>Online activities</li>
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<li>Literatures.</li>
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<p><b>LIFE SKILLS TRAINING THROUGH BASKETBALL</b></p>
<p>Playing basketball is about more than just throwing a ball through a hoop — it’s also about learning important skills that will last a lifetime.</p>
<p>The notion behind the life skills workshops is to further basketball skills development, but even more so, to use the sport as a common language to teach far greater life lessons. The goal is to ensure that each player leaves with more resources and knowledge related to the pursuit of greater possibilities for their future. </p>
<p>We offer teens an opportunity to learn and develop life skills in a supportive environment. Community and personal development is promoted through teamwork, fair play, life skills and fun. Workshop topics are intended to be relevant to youth: drug use, career exploration, special needs awareness, Ubuntu, sexual health, financial management, peer pressure and nutrition. These workshops are intended to empower teens in making positive life choices, and providing a platform for them to take the initiative to lead in some workshops involving a topic of interest they are currently experiencing.</p>
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<p><b>CONTACT DETAILS</b></p>
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<p><b>VICTOR MUTANGA</b></p>
<p>Founder & President-Afro Global Youth Exchange PTY LTD</p>
<p>UNESCO-Olympic Truce Youth Peace Ambassador- South Africa</p>
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<p><b>Continental Office:</b><br /> Skills Village - 108 Frere Road, Greater Ellis Park Precinct, Johannesburg, 2094 Gauteng<br /> Office: +27 11 037 1015</p>
<p>Fax: +27 86 245 5285</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #800000; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">DURING THE BRAZIL OLYMPIC GAMES!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">THE <span style="color: #339966;">UN-BACKED</span> </span><span style="color: #339966;">2016</span><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #339966;"> OLYMPIC TRUCE</span> TAKES PLACE BETWEEN </span></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #800000;">29TH JULY and 25th SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR ...</span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">THIS IS A CALL TO <em>YOU</em> TO HELP WITH FIVE STEPS TO <br /></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">MAKE PEACE ON EARTH A REALITY THIS SUMMER ..</span>.</strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="color: #008000;"><strong style="font-size: small;">Identify and Recruiit</strong><span style="font-size: small;"> Truce Peace Ambassadors in conflict zones around the world</span><img style="width: 103px; height: 110px; margin: 0px; float: right;" src="/images/peace-dove.jpg-1" width="168" height="171" /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small; color: #008000;">Call for a <strong>One Minute Silence at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies</strong> to mark the Truce</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #008000;"><span style="font-size: small;">Run an <strong>Online Training programme for Peace Ambassaadors in conflict zones</strong> to report on the Truce</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #008000;"><strong style="color: #008000; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Develop a <strong>Peace Ambassadors Supporters Programme</strong></span></span></strong><strong style="color: #008000; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to ensure individual contact with Truce abassadors</span></span></strong><strong style="color: #008000; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #008000;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hold an <strong>Olympic Truce and Travel Reporting Conference</strong> during Rio 2016 in Brazil.</span></span></li>
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<p>Welcome to the administration page of the Brazil 2016 Olympic Truce Peace Campaign, where we will be building the Brazil 2016 Olympic Truce Peace Ambassador network to promote and report on the Truce. Our aim is to implement the UN backed Olypmic Truce resolution our governments have signed up to for the Brazil 2016 Olympics.</p>
<p>Traditionally the Games should be accompanied by peace between all participating nations and safe travel for all. Its a message of empathy, tolerance and non-violence that should underpin the 2015 development agenda, and a great opportunity for the global community to celebrate our common humanity.</p>
<p><img style="width: 409px; height: 202px; margin: 0px; float: right;" src="/images/truce-image.png" width="500" height="248" />Our strategy is simple - we are calling for a One Minute Silence at the Olympic Opening Ceremony to highlight the official Truce, then hold a global meeting during the Games to report on the Truce in the most vulnerable states and cities of the world.</p>
<p>The IOC, the UN, the Games' corporate sponsers, the Brazilian national government and other national governments of participating countries are the key stakeholders responsible for making the rhetoric real. All stakeholders should account for the actions they take to create a period of peace from the first day of the Olympics to the last day of the ParaOlympics. </p>
<p>Please add your voice and action in whatever capacity you have to make this happen.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What you can do:</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/olympic-truce-peace-ambassadors">Become an Olympic Truce Peace Ambassador</a></strong></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/brazil-2016-olympic-truce-peace-campaign/olympic-truce-peace-ambassadors-supporters-group">Join the Olympic Truce Peace Ambassador Supporters Group</a></strong></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/brazil-2016-olympic-truce-peace-campaign/olympic-truce-peace-ambassadors-training-room">Establish a National Olympic Truce Promotion and Reporting Process in Your Country</a></strong></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Support Call for Brazil 2016 - Have a cup of tea or coffee and listen to this explanation of the Truce and the call for your support and involvement from Gordon Sillence, London 2012 Olympic Truce Campaign Coordinator. Or read the article <em>‘Mainstreaming Sustainability at Large-scale Tourism Events – the Case of the London 2012 Olympic Games’</em> in The <em>International Handbook on Tourism and Peace</em> (2014) or go to Gordon's blog to follow the Truce implementation Reporting Process.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aihhWB5qyHo"><img style="float: left;" src="/images/olympic-truce-support-video.jpg" width="260" height="195" /></a> <a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/brazil-2016-olympic-truce-peace-campaign/international-handbook-tourism-and-peace"><img style="width: 160px; height: 198px; margin: 0px;" src="/images/international-handbook-tourims-and-peace.png" width="130" height="198" /></a> <a href="https://brazil2016olympictruce.wordpress.com/" target="_new"><img style="width: 150px; height: 170px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" src="/images/peace-dove.jpg" width="150" height="170" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> <strong>Visit our Rio 2016 Olympic Truce <a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/brazil-2016-olympic-truce-peace-campaign/rio-2016-olympic-truce-video-song-competition-page">Video/Song Competition Page </a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>to win a trip to Rio this summer!</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Contact <a href="mailto:gordon.destinet@ecotrans.de">Gordon Sillence </a> to find out more. - Brazil 2016 Olympic Truce Peace Campaign International Director, Janela Aberta 21 Education Centre for Sustainable Development, Ecotrans Network for Sustainable Tourism Development</p>Olympic Truce Peace Ambassadors tag:destinet.eu,2016-02-22:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/olympic-truce-peace-ambassadors2016-02-22T16:44:56ZGordon SillenceGordon Sillence<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>CLICK ON THE MAP TO SEE THE TRUCE AMBASSADOR NETWORK MEMBERS </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="/portal_map?lat_center=54.5259614&lon_center=15.255118700000025&map_zoom=2&map_engine=google&base_layer=physical&geo_types%3Alist=symbol921&geo_types%3Alist=symbol806&geo_types%3Alist=symbol906&geo_types%3Alist=symbol395&geo_types%3Alist=symbol446&geo_types%3Alist=symbol678&geo_types%3Alist=symbol065&country=&path=&geo_query=Peace Ambassador"><img src="/images/olympic-truce-peace-ambassadors.jpg" style="width: 394px; height: 229px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" width="394" height="229" /></a></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>(You can see a listing of the existing youth peace ambassadors who were trained during the London 2012 Olympics below)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b> On this page you can learn <strong><em>how to become a Brazil 2016 Olympic Truce Peace Ambassado</em></strong>r</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>APPLY TO BE AN OLYMPIC TRUCE PEACE AMBASSADOR</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you are successful applicant, your role will be to report on stakeholder implementation of the UN Truce Resolution during the Brazil 2016 Olympic Games. You will contribute to a global picture of world peace during the Olympic Games, and become part of a global Olympic peace team to achieve the dream of global peace in our lifetime through our individual and collective efforts. </p>
<p>The post requires you:</p>
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<li>to understand the history of the Olympic Truce and its impelmentation in the modern Games. </li>
<li>choose a country or stakeholder group where you can establish a national/regional/local network group that will develop a Truce promotion and implementation reporting process</li>
<li>report on the Truce during the Games next summer</li>
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<p>This project is supported by the UN-WTO who ae encouraging UN member states to implement the resolution. The status of Olympic Truce Peace Ambassador requires you to be able to work effectively and efficiently in a global team at the national level in your country. You will learn to use an online reporting system that will present a clear picture of during the Games of how the Truce is implemented, and which stakeholders play their part. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/brazil-2016-olympic-truce-peace-campaign/olympic-truce-peace-ambassadors-training-room/application-be-olympic-truce-peace-ambassador">Apply to be a Rio 2016 Olympic Truce Peace Ambassador here!</a><br /></span></p>
<p>Successful applicants will undergo an online training programme that will guide you through setting up your national networks and reporitng on key stakeholders and conflict zones. It will be the experience of a lifetime, and, if funding is secured, all peace ambassadors will have a chance of attending the Games themsleves in Rio.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/brazil-2016-olympic-truce-peace-campaign">Go to the Main Page of the Rio 2016 Olympic Truce Campaign</a></span></p>
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<p></p>London 2012 Olympic Peace Campaign - Archivetag:destinet.eu,2018-11-18:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/london-2012-olympic-peace-campaign2018-11-18T09:43:10ZGordon SillenceGordon Sillence<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"> <img style="width: 0px; height: 0px; margin: 0px; float: right;" src="/images/Olympic%20Rings%20of%20Light.png" /> <span style="background-color: #999999;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #ff6600;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span> <span style="font-size: medium;">LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC PEACE STRATEGY</span> </span><br /></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Our campaign has already met the first goal of getting a global governmental resolution passed in the UN to create a period of peace during the 2012 Olympic games. After a historic unanimous resolution in the UN last October, there is a call for a global peace between the 25<sup>th</sup> July – 9<sup>th</sup> September 2012. Would you like to play a part to make this happen?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This campaign is also calling for:</span></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>A One Minute Silence during the Opening Ceremony of the Games to mark the Global Peace.</strong></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Support to bring up to 42 teenagers from conflict zones and areas of violence from around the world to London during the Games as youth peace ambassadors.</strong></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>A worldwde collaborative process to map the global peace and international safe passage at the time of the Olympics</strong></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Individuals and organisatons to become Olympic Peace Makers to help make this campaign work.</span></strong></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To achieve this, the <a href="/topics/sustainable-consumption-production-and-tourism-overarching/copy_of_peace-through-tourism/london-2012-olympic-peace-campaign/strategic-approach-olympic-truce-sustainable-development-responsible-tourism-and" target="_new">strategy</a> is linked to the UNs Rio+20 sustainable development conference, which takes place in June, one month before the Olympics. Please see the <a href="/topics/sustainable-consumption-production-and-tourism-overarching/copy_of_peace-through-tourism/london-2012-olympic-peace-campaign/london-2012-olympic-youth-peace-ambassadors-training-and-assistance-programme" target="_new">Youth Peace Ambassadors Training and Assistance Programme</a> to see what the Campaign will deliver. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">HOW TO HELP US ACHIEVE THE PEACE - 4 THINGS YOU COULD DO</p>
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<li><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We are in the process of identifying teenagers and the difference conflict zones and areas of violence. Currently we have youths potentially coming from the Middle East, South America, Africa and the Indian sub-continent.<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong> Can you or your organization send in suggestions of candidates?</strong></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">w</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">e need to raise money to fund these journeys and the stay in the UK. <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <strong>Can you or your organisation provide funding and resources to support this initiative?</strong> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span> <br /></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We need to develop a programme of activities at Rio and in the UK for these teenagers to train as youth peace ambassadors, <span style="color: #333333;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can you or your organization contribute to this progamme? <br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #ff9900; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #d2e7ee;"><span style="color: #333333;">We need people and organisations to help us achieve our aim - it is such a big project it needs multi-stakeholder collaboration. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can you offer your help to make this happen by becoming a</span><span style="color: #888888; font-size: small;"> <a href="/topics/sustainable-consumption-production-and-tourism-overarching/copy_of_peace-through-tourism/london-2012-olympic-peace-campaign/london-2012-olympic-peace-maker-registration-form"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #888888;"><span style="color: #003300;">London 2012 Olympic Peace Maker?</span> </span></a></span></span> </span> </span><br /></strong></span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">If your answer is yes to any of the above then please contact <a href="mailto:gordon.destinet@ecotrans.de"><span style="color: #800000;">Gordon Sillence, </span></a>the Campaign organizer. </span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>See the list of files and folders below for the background, history and further details of this process.<br /></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>The London 2012 Olympic Peace Strategy is supported by:</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ecotrans.org">Ecotrans Network for Sustainable Tourism Developmen</a>t <a href="http://www.tourism-vision.com">Vision on Sustainable Tourism</a> <a href="http://www.iipt.org">International Institute of Peace through Tourism </a>Lord Micheal Bates UK MP <a href="http://www.WalkforTruce.org">Walk for Truce</a> <a href="http://www.bksiyengar.com">Yogachayra BKS Iyengar</a> <a href="http://www.peace-support.de">Peace Support Germany</a> <a href="http://www.globalsportspartners.org/" target="_new">Global Sports Partners</a></span></p>
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<p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px; margin: 0px; float: right;" src="/images/Olympic%20Rings%20of%20Light.png" width="0" height="0" /></p>TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC TRUCE PEACE CAMPAIGNtag:destinet.eu,2019-12-15:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/japan-2020-olympic-truce-peace-campaign2019-12-15T16:45:18ZGordon SillenceGordon Sillence<p> </p>
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<p><strong>Olympic Peace Gardens – SDG 16 Olympic Effort for Peace & Security</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/japan-2020-olympic-truce-peace-campaign/journey-japan-2020">Martial Arts Movement:</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/japan-2020-olympic-truce-peace-campaign/journey-japan-2020">Journey to Japan - </a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/japan-2020-olympic-truce-peace-campaign/journey-japan-2020">Say No to Knife Crime</a></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>In a nutshell- What is the Japan 2020 Olympic Truce Campaign about?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is clearer than ever that modern society has developed a global economy based on low-level warfare, environmental resource depletion and global oppression of the many for the benefit of the few. Constant war, conflict and violence are bringing the vast majority of us to the brink of economic, environmental and cultural impoverishment, and our children, from both richer and poorer countries, are facing even greater enslavement to this unequal status quo. In the face of crises after crises, we need a global Olympic effort to end this now. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The UN has set the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals to address these issues, but without an implementation strategy these goals will once again – just like the Millennium Goals and their 2015 revision – be turned into the rhetoric of self-interested governments and business interested in profit before planet and people. The Olympic Truce - <em>a period of 6 weeks of peace between competing nations signed up to by all participating nation states during the Olympic Games</em> - represents a unique and historical opportunity to address these issues head on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sadly the last three Olympics have been ‘<em>Bread and Games’</em> for the masses, distracting us from the reality of nation state conflict-driven economy. Worse still, we have entered an era where nation states have become masters of mis-information, distortion and suppression of the truth. For a real Olympic Truce to be realised during the Japan 2020 Games, this time civil society can take a lead and ensure the IOC, UN and participating nations end their rhetorical use of the Truce and give real peace a chance, and report to the world on the reality of the Truce.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Japan 2020 Campaign Objective: to raise awareness of the Olympic Truce as a key tool to mainstream SDG 16 as the basis for implementing all other goals, targeting those who need help most. It aims to establish a support system for setting up <em>A Global Network of Olympic Truce Peace Reporters in the world’s conflict areas who will report on the Japan 2020 Truce implementation process. </em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The 2020 Olympic Truce Campaign Strategy: To build on the last 3 Olympic Truce Peace Ambassadors Campaigns to build a supporters group that will identify, train and support Truce Peace Reporters groups in conflict zones to provide country and regional level reports on the implementation of the Truce during the period of the Games. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This process will then be mainstreamed through three themes, culture, conflict resolution and conservation featuring a world music event, martial arts pilgrimage and performance and sport & peace gardening competition– in order to take the Truce message to a diverse range of stakeholders and gain media interest.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Japan 2020 Olympic Truce Reporters Implementation Work Plan:</span></strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Establish a core support team to coordinate the process.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Formulate the support partnership from a stakeholder group that includes youth, reporters, media, business and government agencies.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Identify, train and support country-based 2/3 person reporting teams (one journalist, one film/video editor) in conflict zones to report on the implementation of the Olympic Truce.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Focusing on culture, conflict resolution and conservation themes, host a world music/poetry event, a Japan peace pilgrimage, and an international sports & peace garden competition to highlight the Truce in the build up to the Games. </span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"> We need your support NOW! Please contact <a href="mailto:gordon.destinet@ecotrans.de?subject=">Gordon Sillence</a> to find out how we can work together to make this happen.</span></p>
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<p><strong> </strong></p>Paris 2024 Olympic Truce Peace Ambassadors Programmetag:destinet.eu,2023-12-23:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/paris-2024-olympic-truce-pease-ambassadors-programme2023-12-23T21:15:42ZGordon SillenceGordon Sillence<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>27.10.2023 </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>URGENT CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA NOW!</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>BE PART OF PREVENTING A GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND NAME AND SHAME THOSE WHO ARE KILLING CIVILIANS FOR PROFIT, POWER AND PRIDE. </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><img src="../../../../images/al-jezeera-gaza.png" style="width: 602px; height: 338px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;" width="602" height="338" /></span></strong></span><br /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axaHx9u7xvc">See this video! </a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><img style="width: 530px; height: 199px; margin: 0px 0px; vertical-align: undefined;" src="../../../../images/olympic-rings-peace.jpg" width="530" height="199" /></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>PEACE PARKS MUSIC MOVEMENT</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;">…<br />It is one of the ironies of life for the Peace Parks Music Movement that the current escalation of violence in the Gaza strip started on October 7th at a left wing peace music festival ... since then the barbarism of this war has escalated to genocidal proportions, claiming thousands of lives of children - civilian bodies piling up as the inhuman collateral damage of military power struggles over land, labour and oil. The call for Israel, the United States, UK, Germany, France and other western powers to halt their criminal actions against civilians with an IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE AND UNCONDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID must be heard by them so they stop their murderous attacks that are perpetuating hourly this unendurable suffering of 75 years of British, Israeli and American colonial apartheid, now in a crescendo of insane militarized state violence.<br />But we must stand up again in the spirit of one global community - Russians with Ukrainians, Israelis with Palestinians, black and white, old and young, men and women, rich and poor - and assert our global humanity over cruel national sovereignty. <br />https://destinet.eu/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/paris-2024-olympic-truce-pease-ambassadors-programme<br />Please set up your own Peace Parks Music Movement event to bring your communities together to find our liberation in this lifetime for all of us, but right now name those who need shaming and support those in urgent need of our voices and actions to create humane conditions for all civilians in Gaza.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Peace Parks Music Movement - Background</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The first event to launch the Peace Parks Music Movement programme was held at the Inner Peace Forest Retreat in the Algarve, Southern Portugal on June 21st 2022 where a Peace Garden was opened and a Day of Peace in the Community celebrated though poetry, music and dance. Our event attracted over70 people from 33 countries and we all wanted to live in the same peace and harmony, not in the conflict and misery our governments present us.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">UPDATE: Olympic Truce Peace Ambassadors -</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>Peace Parks Music Movement</em> campaign</span> </p>
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<li>We held a launch event last year on 21<sup>st</sup> June and to date we have without had responses to run events in 10 different countries! This includes Westminster UNA’s offer to host an event in the UN Green outside the Houses of Parliament in the UK during the Paris ’24 Games</li>
<li>Breda university plans to make this part of their official student activities and may engage over 200 students in this work bring peace and tourism activities together.</li>
<li>The IIPT will support the action as a legacy project to mark the retirement of Mr Louis D’Amore, a life time high-level peace campaigner. We link up our work with the IIPT’s own Peace Parks initiative in the Caribbean.</li>
<li>In Zambia our Peace ambassador Victor Mutanga is using his musical talents to encourage peace,</li>
<li>Armin Alic is bringing the programme to Bosnia to mark 30 years since that conflict,</li>
<li>An event is being planned to take place in Ukraine itself to support sustainable recovery of their communities.</li>
<li>Marek has produced 12 tracks for a peace album as the heart of our peace, music and education education work </li>
<li>Peace Parks Playlist sitll has John Lennon's <em>Gove Peace a Chance</em> as number 1! </li>
<li>We have formed a small team working to engage musicians around the world to link the peace and Truce issue and then mainstream the message over the next 14 months.</li>
<li><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>We are calling for Truce in Gaza now! </strong></span></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peace+parks+music+movement"><img src="../../../../images/peace-parks-music-movement.png" style="width: 700px; height: 405px; margin: 0px;" width="900" height="521" /></a></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Set up Your Own Peace Parks Music Movement Event!</strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We have made a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXTW86FIao&ab_channel=GordonSillence">Peace Parks Music Movement video</a> from the day that aims to encourage people in other countries to nominate a peace park or garden where they will hold an event to communicate the message of local to global peace built on individual, family and community economic, environmental and cultural security, not military-industrial autocracy. </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> By Paris 2024 we want all the countries of the IOC participating at the Paris Games who sign up for the United Nations Truce in July-August 2024 to be represented by peace park music movement events during this six week period of peace. </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Imagine, 140 Peace Park Music Movement events happening during the Olympic Truce in the summer of ‘24, each one celebrating local to global peace in our lifetime, sharing inner peace through community unity, and you are making it happen …</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please let us know if you want to set up an event in your country. There’s 3 easy steps to take:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>1 Send us an email to let us know you are interested</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <strong>2 Identify a park where you can host an event</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <strong>3 Develop an event programme for summer ‘24 that can include music and movement to celebrate peace and nature.</strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>We will put your event on a global map and bring us all into a peace parks music movement global community. </em></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Contact:</strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gordon Sillence: gordon.sillence@gmail.com</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Nicola Vitali: 0035 1932653 510 Telegram/Whatsapp</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Emma Ravelli: 0031 619 607616</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Marek: https://madmarekjuggler.bandcamp.com/track/peace-parks-music-movement</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"<em>We all need to do it personally when its clear our nation states do not want it for society - they maintain nationalist identities in competition, when we are now becoming one global community, cooperating to build a peaceful, prosperous planet for all, with no-one left behind, remember... do not accept the military-industrial Agenda of the kleptocracy, but let's state our common Agenda for equality and peace with a global voice, together in truely Communitarian Democracy</em>."</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> ARCHIVE</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">21st June 2021</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The first event to launch the programme will be held at the <strong>Inner Peace Forest Retreat</strong> in Southern Portugal, where a Peace Garden will be opened and a Day of Peace in the Community celebrated though poetry music and dance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A site will be built which will encourage people in other countries to nominate a peace park or garden where they will hold an event to communicate the message of local to global peace built on individual, familiy and community economic, environmental and cultura security, not military-industrial autocrary. By Paris 2024 we want all the countries of the IOC participating at the Paris Games who sign up for the United Nations Truce in July-August 2024 to be represented by peace park music movement events during this six week period of peace.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sunday 19TH June 2024 </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">PROGRAMME AT THE INNER PEACE FOREST RETREAT</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ALL DAY FOREST SCHOOL/YOGA COMMUNITY EVENT </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">MORNING YOGA AND MEDITATION PROGRAMME 08.00am - 11.00 am Yoga Teachers Unite!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">OPENING OF THE PEACE GARDEN AT THE INNER PEACE FOREST TEMPLE 11.30-12.00 noon</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(World Yoga Day and Solstice Celeberation)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">PEACE GARDEN MEDITATION 12.-00 -13.00 HRS</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">COMMUNITY LUNCH - WORLD FOOD THEMES (Bring a dish to share) 13.00hrs - 15,00 hrs</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AFTERNOON & EVENING LIVE MUSIC 15.00 PM to Midnight: Mad Marek Juggler, Mina, Anisha Melody and more...</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Global video links to: (proposed) Rocky Peter, Victor Mutanga </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Olympic Truce Paris 24 Peace Message from Gordon Sillence - '<em>No Sustainability without Community, No Peace without Equality'.</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>If you wish to organise a similar event in your country then link to us to offer support, join in or tell us know what you will do and lets' lead the Way to global peace on earth in our lifetime, together! Its the only way...</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>The Olympic Truce Peace Campaign Network (OTPCaN)- Past Eventstag:destinet.eu,2014-11-20:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/olympic-truce-peace-campaign-network-otpcan-past-events2014-11-20T19:08:50ZVictor MutangaVictor MutangaPress Release- “Celebration of Olympism” and promoting the Olympic Truce in Nepaltag:destinet.eu,2014-07-16:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/press-release-celebration-of-olympism-and-promoting-the-olympic-truce-in-nepal2014-07-16T06:17:57ZVictor MutangaVictor Mutanga<p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">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 16<sup>th</sup> -20<sup>th</sup> July 2014 at the Olympics Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal<b>. </b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">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 15<sup>th</sup> 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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">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.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">For more information and to register please email: <a href="mailto:youthsunescoclub@gmail.com"><b><span style="color: #000000;" color="#000000">youthsunescoclub@gmail.com</span></b></a><b> </b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;" size="3">For further Information, interview and photo opportunities, please contact:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span size="3">Contact Person(s</span></b><span size="3">): Rimesh Khanal </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span size="3">Email: </span><a href="mailto:youthsunescoclub@gmail.com"><b><span style="color: #000000;" size="3" color="#000000">youthsunescoclub@gmail.com</span></b></a><b><span size="3"> </span></b></span></p>Article for Celebration of Olympism tag:destinet.eu,2014-11-20:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/article-celebration-olympism2014-11-20T19:08:50ZVictor MutangaVictor Mutanga1st Inter-African Youth Entrepreneurs Exchange Programmetag:destinet.eu,2014-11-20:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/application-form-1st-inter-african-youth-entrepreneurs-exchange-programme2014-11-20T19:08:50ZVictor MutangaVictor Mutanga<p align="center"><b>1<sup>ST</sup> INTER-AFRICAN YOUTH</b></p>
<p align="center"><b>ENTREPRENEURS EXCHANGE</b></p>
<p align="center"><b>PROGRAMME</b></p>
<p align="center"><b>“Youth Entrepreneurship: Cultivating partnerships for Employment Creation, Economic Growth, and Development in Africa.”</b></p>
<p align="center"><b>17<sup>th</sup>- 21<sup>st</sup> of November 2014</b></p>
<p align="center"><b>SKILLS VILLAGE, JOHANNESBURG- SOUTH AFRICA</b></p>
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<p>Dear Friends and Colleagues,</p>
<p>Afro Global Youth Exchange in partnership with the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Week will be host the 1st Inter-African Youth Entrepreneurs Exchange from November 17— 21, 2014, in Johannesburg, South Africa.</p>
<p>We would like to cordially invite you to nominate and sponsor competent and promising participants between the ages of 18-34, including youth with disabilities to represent your country at the 1st Inter-African Youth Entrepreneurs Exchange Programme. In addition we would like to request your assistance in connecting the programme with Youth Ministries and Entrepreneurship Development Organisations in your country.</p>
<p>This cross-border exchange programme aims to provide a platform for dialogue, collaboration and partnerships across industries, sectors, countries and regions among youth entrepreneurs in Africa. The primary objective of this exchange programme is to cultivate business and social networks as well as examine opportunities and challenges for youth entrepreneurs and governments to work effectively together to promote innovation and achieve scale and momentum for youth employment, economic growth, peace and development in Africa through entrepreneurship.</p>
<p>It is envisioned that the exchange programme will help young entrepreneurs from various regions and countries across Africa to learn from each other, identify collective responsibilities and opportunities for increased collaboration as well as improve their ability to address their shared problems—problems that affect most of Africa. If successful, collaboration between youth entrepreneurs could increase capacity and help galvanize action for development in Africa. The exchange programme will:</p>
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<li>Promote and support an open, inclusive, and constructive dialogue on opportunities, challenges, and capacity for Africa’s economic development through entrepreneurship;</li>
<li>Discuss ideas on how youth entrepreneurs can be stimulated and supported to become more of a force for employment creation, economic growth and development;</li>
<li>Facilitate and support relationship building between individuals and institutions across sectors and countries to accelerate the development of products and markets;</li>
<li>Discuss strategies on how to initiate and sustain cross-sectoral, national, regional and international collaborative efforts to enhance development in Africa.</li>
<li>Attract media attention and raise awareness on how youth entrepreneurs can play a meaningful role to promote innovation and achieve scale for youth employment, economic growth, peace and development in Africa through entrepreneurship.</li>
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<p class="Default"><b>TARGET AUDIENCE</b></p>
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<li>Youth Entrepreneurs;</li>
<li>Government Agencies;</li>
<li>Investment Promotion Agencies;</li>
<li>Venture capitalists, incubators and businesses;</li>
<li>Organizations promoting Entrepreneurship;</li>
<li>Universities;</li>
<li>Representatives of chambers of commerce, industry and business associations;</li>
<li>Banks, investment funds and other financial institutions;</li>
<li>Development Agencies; and</li>
<li>Media representatives</li>
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<p><b>NOMINATE AND APPLY NOW</b></p>
<p>The first step towards sending your country representative for the 1st Inter-African Youth Entrepreneurs Exchange Programme is to submit a nomination/candidate application (<b>form attached</b>) to <a href="mailto:applications@agyexchange.org">applications@agyexchange.org</a> . Nominees should display the following skills and traits:</p>
<ul>
<li>An evident commitment to effecting positive change. This commitment can be in many forms; ranging from a high level of involvement in community initiatives to social entrepreneurship or from leading responsible business practices to public service;</li>
<li>Leadership ability;</li>
<li>Concern for continental or global issues;</li>
<li>Ability to generate and articulate impactful ideas; and</li>
<li>Teamwork.</li>
</ul>
<p>Successful applications will be informed and booking for the exchange programme will only be confirmed upon receipt of the registration payment of <b>US$ 850</b>.</p>
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<p>The registration fee covers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Shared accommodation in Johannesburg for five nights, (17-21 November 2014).</li>
<li>Breakfast, lunch and dinner on (17-21 November 2014) and breakfast only on 22nd November.</li>
<li>Transport between the airport, accommodation, venue and site activities that are part of the programme.</li>
<li>Access to all the Exchange Programme activities.</li>
<li>Exchange Programme hand-outs and support materials.</li>
</ul>
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<p><b><i>*Please note that flight and visa application costs are not included in the registration amount. </i></b></p>
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<p class="Default"><b>CONCLUSION </b></p>
<p>In view of the current challenges faced in Africa, developing and empowering youth entrepreneurs is currently the most viable and sustainable solutions that will work as a catalyst in accelerating development. Afro-Global recognizes this need and therefore endeavors to bridge these gaps through these exchange programmes that will be held annually in different African countries tackling pertinent issues. It is envisaged that the proposed exchange programme will be an attempt to jump-start the dialogue and integration needed to build a brighter future for Africa.</p>
<p>We are so proud of Afro Global Youth Exchange’s accomplishments and the impact it has had since its inception. In order to do more, we are stepping up to our responsibilities for inspiring our next generation of leaders and change-makers. And our efforts are gaining traction, thanks to the support and encouragement of many who believe in youth-led service.</p>
<p>We look forward to your support to continue this great journey.</p>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
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<p><b> </b></p>
<p><b>Victor Mutanga</b></p>
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<p>Founder & President-Afro Global Youth Exchange PTY LTD</p>
<p>UNESCO-Olympic Truce Youth Peace Ambassador- South Africa/ Zimbabwe</p>
<p>Regional Coordinator - Olympic Truce Peace Campaign Network</p>
<p><b>Continental Office</b>:</p>
<p>Skills Village - 108 Frere Road, Greater Ellis Park Precinct, Johannesburg, 2094 Gauteng</p>
<p>Office: +27 11 037 1015</p>
<p>Fax: +27 86 245 5285</p>
<p>Mobile: +27 73 816 3123</p>
<p><a href="mailto:president@agyexchange.org">president@agyexchange.org</a> </p>
<p><b>“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”</b></p>To mark the Vancouver Olympic Games, a Peace through Tourism Folder is launched on DestiNettag:destinet.eu,2018-11-18:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/mark-vancouver-olympic-games-peace-through2018-11-18T09:41:01ZGordon SillenceGordon Sillence<p>As the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics draws to a close, we need to reassess how to implement the Olympic Truce so that we can really create 16 days of global peace at the London Olympics. A peace dividend in 2012 has to be seen as good for the industry, for the planet, and for the people. Peace is one of the basic preconditions for sustainable development. Sustainable tourism and peace go hand in hand. Peace provides the basis for travel, whereas war and conflict disrupt tourist activity. Very often tourism is used a means to regenerate war-affected areas, or develop conflict resolution processes (cf Mozambique, Palestine). Peace is also essential for the preservation of the environment and biodiversity, both of which are casualties of war.</p>
<p>Tourism stakeholders have a unique role to play in setting up the Truce, as we cut across all walks of life, economic sectors and geographical divides. Stakeholders are also in a unique position to benefit from using the opportunity of a period of global peace during the Olympic Games to boost tourism activity worldwide. ´Olympic Peace through Tourism London 2012 - Defining Tourism Stakeholders` Contributions`</p>
<p><a href="/topics/sustainable-consumption-production-and-tourism-overarching/copy_of_peace-through-tourism/london-2012-olympic-peace-campaign/campaign-archive/olympic-peace-through-tourism-london-2012/Olympic_Truce_London_2012_Tourism_Stakeholders_Contributions_Concept_March_2010.pdf">http://destinet.eu/topics/sustainable-consumption-production-and-tourism-overarching/copy_of_peace-through-tourism/london-2012-olympic-peace-campaign/campaign-archive/olympic-peace-through-tourism-london-2012/Olympic_Truce_London_2012_Tourism_Stakeholders_Contributions_Concept_March_2010.pdf</a></p>
<p>provides a coordinated multi-stakeholder blueprint for immediate action if we are to make the 2012 date. Despite the best efforts of established groups such as the IIPT and the Vancouver City contribution</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/winter-games-history/olympic-truce/">http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/winter-games-history/olympic-truce/</a></p>
<p> current efforts are clearly not achieving the Truce, so it is time to up our efforts to match the challenge of this monumental task. There is now a folder on the DestiNet Portal on Sustainable Tourism to build a map of stakeholder contributions to this process. See</p>
<p> <a href="/topics/sustainable-consumption-production-and-tourism-overarching/copy_of_peace-through-tourism">http://destinet.eu/topics/sustainable-consumption-production-and-tourism-overarching/peace-through-tourism</a></p>
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<p>Gordon Sillence - Olympic Rings of Light London 2012 Coordinator</p>
<p> </p>An End-of-Days Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Reality Check in the Light of Nation-State Upheaval 2022tag:destinet.eu,2022-05-08:/who-who/civil-society-ngos/olympic-truce-youth-peace-ambassadors-network/an-end-of-days-agenda-2030-sustainable-development-reality-check-in-the-light-of2022-05-08T13:10:42ZGordon SillenceGordon Sillence<p><em>Gordon Sillence - in opening a series of articles and podcasts on the Stockholm +50 and the 2030 Agenda - reflects in this on the overarching theme of sustainable development at this quintessential crisis point, when pestilence is replaced by war and famine, no-body is booking a holiday to the Ukraine, and Thanos comes down to Earth in the mind warping war of information control of our real reality …</em></p>
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<p><em>Release Date 8th May 2022</em></p>