Sport for Development and Peace

The United Nations has long recognized the power and universality of sport, using it to unite individuals and groups through supporting sport for development efforts, participating in events from the global to the grassroots level, and developing its own sports-related campaigns and initiatives.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / Stories from the UN Archive
• Video Length: 00:01:52
• Production Date: 1 August 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Subject Topical: SPORTS; DEVELOPMENT; PEACE
• Geographic Subject: SWEDEN
• MAMS Id: 3247061
• Parent Id: 3247061
• Alternate Title: UNV_3247061

Description

Due to its vast reach, unparalleled popularity and foundation of positive values, sport is ideally positioned to contribute towards the United Nations’ objectives for development and peace. 

Collaboration between the IOC and the UN has played a central role in spreading the acceptance of sport as a means to promote internationally agreed development goals. In 2015, in a historic moment for sport and the Olympic Movement, sport was officially recognised as an important enabler of sustainable development and included in the UN’s Agenda 2030. 

Utilizing material from the UN Audiovisual Library, this production allows viewers to look back to 1973, when a Swedish gymnastic team performed on the visitor's plaza at UN Headquarters in New York City.