World Sports Values Summit for Peace and Development Program Cape Town, South Africa 2-3 November, 2015 Welcome to South Africa 3 Welcome The Power of Youth and Sports for Peace and Development “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.” - Nelson Mandela Sport is an extraordinary vehicle for bringing people together and United Nations Secretary- offers precious opportunities to emphasize values too often clouded General Ban Ki-moon points in our modern society. Sport, in its many forms, has a large potential to sport as an important to promote physical and mental well-being, overcome cultural divides, tool in achieving the UN’s goals for development and build community, and advance peace and the common good. Sport peace. In September 2015, highlights what humanity shares and what can be achieved in an the United Nations General inclusive environment. Throughout the world, young people are Assembly formally adopted embracing sport as a tool to help reach personal, community, national a new sustainable and International development objectives as well as address some of development agenda. It the challenges that arise from humanitarian crises in both conflict and builds on achievements of post-‐conflict settings. the Millennium Development Goals. Seventeen goals focus on ending poverty and extreme hunger, tackling Sport is recognised by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon climate change, and working as an important tool in helping to achieve the UN’s goals for development for peace. Creative partnerships and peace programmes. In September 2015, the United Nations formally are a centerpiece. With 2015 as adopted a new sustainable development agenda to build on the work a year of global action, this already done by the Millennium Development Goals. 17 new goals focus year’s Summit resonates with on ending poverty and extreme hunger and tackling climate change, the Sustainable Development among other global issues. With 2015 as a year of global action, this Goals, highlighting the potential year’s Summit resonates with the new Sustainable Development Goals, for promoting education and resonating with the goals of ensuring healthy lives, education and understanding, fostering inclusion, and promoting healthy understanding, and inclusion, especially of women and children. and fulfilling lives. Our aim is to Our aim is to inspire the Young Leaders present to take forward inspire the Young Leaders actions which will help to achieve these goals. present, and others around the world, to expand their dreams and work in ways that contribute to these global aspirations. World Sports Values Summit for Peace and Development Welcome 4 Dr Haruhisa Handa Chairman of Worldwide Support for Development and the International Sports Promotion Society On behalf of Worldwide Support for Development and the International Sports Promotion Society, please allow me to welcome you to beautiful Cape Town, South Africa and the 2015 World Sports Values Summit for Peace and Development. BBC Sports Editor David Bond has argued that South Africa’s gift to the world, Nelson Mandela, “may have been the first global leader to use sport as a tool to unite people and to redefine a country's international image.” Mandela observed how futbol matches in his Robben Island prison united members of the African National Congress, and he came to see the great symbolic power of sport, using it as a vehicle to tackle and reframe racial challenges. His real triumph came in his courageous gestures of unity amidst the 1995 Rugby World Cup hosted and won by a newly united South Africa (see adjoining photo and caption). This is one of the key reasons we selected Cape Town for this fourth annual Summit. It is a beacon of hope and courage to the world. It is also why I have made a personal investment in this community by sponsoring both the Mpumalanga Black Aces Football Club and the Fives Futbol. Both of these outfits are inspiring the best of the human spirit through their unique approach to sport. The Summits each focus on the crucial and extraordinary role that sport can play in human life. Sport brings disparate peoples together and helps to advance cooperation, development, and even peace. The athletes and leaders who have gathered here in Cape Town bring direct experiences of what can be achieved. With each Summit we seek to learn from promising practices and to determine what we might still yet achieve together in advancing the valuable role that sport can have in modern society. The Summit allows us to look at the challenges and barriers and to discover the beautiful opportunities for human progress that lie within them. For the common love of sport, let us share, feel, think, and dream together in these days of conferencing with one another. The subject of the 2009 Hollywood film Invictus, featuring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, the powerful image of Mandela, sporting a Springbok jersey and handing the Rugby World Cup to Francois Pienaar, helped unite an apartheid- torn nation and arrested the world’s attention. Getty Images Cape Town International Convention Centre, 2-3 November 2015 5 Welcome Katherine Marshall Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University A warm welcome to you, inspired leaders from different continents, institutions, and sectors, young and not so young. The ideals and values that sports exemplify echo those we aspire to as we work for a peaceful, flourishing world: excellence, equity, teamwork, and joy. We hope that we can grapple over the next few days with how to turn ideals and values into reality, and thus point the sponsoring institutions towards exciting new ideas and programs. We look to you for inspiration, challenges, and bold new paths forward. Sir Timothy O’Shea Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh Welcome to all of you who are attending this year’s Summit in Cape Town. I am delighted that the University of Edinburgh has become a partner in the Summit. The University is not only renowned for its academic excellence, but takes great pride in its athletic achievements. It has helped countless students achieve their sporting ambitions. We hope that you will take inspiration from Edinburgh’s sporting heroes who applied the same values of dedication and commitment to their studies and their continuing work to inspire the next generation. Max Price Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town This will be the first time that the World Sports Values Summit will be held on the continent of Africa. We are delighted that it will happen in South Africa and that the University of Cape Town will welcome you on behalf of the rest of the continent. Sport plays a crucial role in the development of Africa and has at different times in our history served as an instrument for building unity and promoting reconciliation. UCT has a long and proud legacy of excellent athletes who serve as role models for the upcoming generation. Our hope is that this World Sports Summit will add to this rich history and inspire future generations to also make their mark on the world stage. Lord Colin Moynihan UK Minister of Sport in Margaret Thatcher’s Government and Chairman of the British Olympic Association for London 2012. A very warm welcome to this important Sports Summit for Peace and Development. This event brings together Young Leaders, Athletes, Experts and Distinguished Guests from around the world to promote the goal set out in the Olympic Charter: ‘to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport.’ We encourage you over the next few days to think of ways together we can achieve this goal and sustainable peace and development by harnessing the power of youth and sport. World Sports Values Summit for Peace and Development About the Summit 6 The World Sports Values Summit for Peace and Development forms part of a series of annual international symposia aimed at highlighting the positive roles that sport can play in furthering the cause of peace and human development. The goal of these gatherings is to facilitate a visionary and rigorous conversation among young athletes, leaders, academics, and experts about the values that the world of sport can advance. Founding Members Dr. Haruhisa Handa - Founding Chairman of Worldwide Support for Development, International Sports Promotion Society Lord Colin Moynihan - UK Minister of Sport in Margaret Thatcher’s Government and Chairman for the British Olympic Association for London 2012 Katherine Marshall - Executive Director of World Faiths Development Dialogue Partners International Sports Promotion Society World Faiths Development Dialogue at Georgetown University (ISPS) (WFDD) Worldwide Support for Development University of Cape Town (WSD) (UCT) The University of Edinburgh Participants (UE) The Summit features 40 young leaders and athletes from around the world, including several outstanding participants from previous World Sports Values Summits. This year, several additional participants who play recognized leadership roles relating to sports values and who have been recognized by our university partners join the community. We welcome the participation of 25 experts and distinguished guests who participate as speakers and panelists. Reflecting the importance of sport in South African society, we are pleased that many outstanding local sportsmen and women join us for the Summit. 2015 Handa Sports and The goal of the Fellowship programme is to help translate the Summit’s core values of sport for peace and development Human Development into practice. They will support creative ways to enhance Fellowship sport’s impact on positive cultural, social, and political change in different world regions, but especially in poor and conflict- affected countries.