The first 1st National Peace & Sport Conference was held in the presence of the officials of the National Olympic Committee, a group of NFs’ president, participants in the conference and the elected ones in the Farsi Hall of the National Olympic Academy.
Iran NOC; Tehran: This conference
was organized by the Peace and Sport Commission of the National Olympic
Committee through a public call in four sections: "Scientific Conference
entitled Peace and Sports", "Press Festival entitled Pen, Peace and
Sports", "Content Production Festival entitled Peace and Sports"
and National Peace and Sports Award. The conference was represented by Mr. Mahmoud
Khosravi VWafa, NOC President, Dr. Mahin Farhadizad, the NOC Vice-President,
Dr. Seyed Manaf Hashemi, NOC Secretary-General, and a group of guests,
participants, and winners of this festival.
At the closing ceremony of the
above conference, Dr. Seyed Manaf Hashemi, Secretary General of the National
Olympic Committee, while praising the organizers of this conference, stated: “Considering
the place and capacity of sports in the history of tensions and conflicts on
the one hand and the expansion of peace and friendship on the other hand, the NOC
Peace and Sport Commission acts as one of the commissions of the National
Olympic Committee relying on the spirit and teachings of the Olympics with the
aim of developing community discourse, peace, justice and promoting
international relations for the role of public diplomacy and interaction with
other countries of the world by spreading the values and beliefs of Iranian culture
and Islamic works through the power of sports”.
The NOC Secretary-General further
referred to sports as a low-cost tool for peace and stated: “In 2000 in New York,
189 countries of the world came together and predicted 7 main goals for the
third millennium. Out of these 7 goals, two goals are related to peace, the
first is gender equality and justice and support for women, and the second is
promotion of global friendship for the development and progress and
dissemination of sports with the goal of world peace”. He further continued: “The
sports is a platform for peace and one of the characteristics of sports is the
reflection of the message of peace and friendship. Sports, as an important
element in human life, also plays an effective role in bringing different
tribes and groups together in society”.