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Actors already identified in 2005, by the Magglingen Call to Action to facilitate its process include: sport organisations, athletes, multilateral organisations and the UN sys- tem, bilateral development agencies, armed forces/international peacekeeping missions, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). The result has since then been an in- teresting development of initiatives and pro- grammes for sport and peace. Over the years that followed the Magglingen Call to Action, the UN appointed an Advisor for the UN Gen- eral-Secretary Kofi Annan on Sport for Devel- opment and Peace with Adolf Ogi 2001-2007. His successor, Willi Lemke, was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon in 2008. In 2007 ‘Sport and Peace Proj- ects’ were started by dignitaries such as HHR Prince Feisal of Jordan and HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. Under his patronage, Peace and Sport, L’Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport developed with the objective “ to bring the structuring values of sport to the heart of communities in crisis throughout the world, making sport a vehicle for tolerance, respect and citizenship at the service of sustainable peace.” (http://www.peace-sportunderthepa- tronage.org/) The same year Prince Feisal founded “Generations For Peace” which runs “dedicated peace programmes to empower, train and sup- port leaders of youth from conflicted commu- nities around the world to use the power of sport to unite children and youth from all sides of their divides to contribute towards a sustain-

able peace”. (http://www.beyondsport.org/be- hind-beyond/people/view/41) The international sport and development website “sportanddev.org” followed and start- ed a dedicated section on their website on “Sport and Peace Building” in 2008 “ to pro- vide an overview of the main topics and con- cerns in this area and to stimulate discussions in the field”, and provide access to relevant literature and information. (http://www.sport anddev.org/learnmore/sport_and_peace_ building/) Tertiary institutions also came on board. In January of 2009 the UN affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica offered a MA module on Sport and Peace for the first time and lately, in 2011, UPEACE joined hands with International University in Monaco (IUM) for a joint Master’s degree Programme in Sustainable Peace Through Sport. The Pro- gramme is conducted in partnership with Peace and Sport, L’Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport, IUM and UPEACE. The University of the Western Cape in South Africa (UWC) launched its Interdisciplinary Centre for Sport Science and Development (ICESSD) in Decem- ber 2009 supported by the United Nations Of- fice on Sport for Development and Peace (UN- OSDP). ICESSD has one of their identified research areas Sport, Peace and Transforma- tion and hosted the 2 nd International Sport and Development Conference in December 2011 with 200 delegates from 33 countries de- liberating on the topic of Networking and

Strategic Planning for Sport, Development and Peace. For 2013 the Centre is planning to implement its Postgraduate Diploma in Sport, Development and Peace and an MSc in Sport and Development. And last but not least, not to forget there are social inclusion initiatives which address is- sues of diversity and conflict linked to gender using sport as a tool. The International Work- ing Group (IWG) on Women and Sport is such an initiative which was already established in 1994 at the 1 st World Conference on Women and Sport in Brighton. The recent IOC World Conference on Women and Sport in February 2012 in Los Angeles called for a more equita- ble representation of women on executive committees of national and international fed- erations as well as the IOC and Olympic movement and for greater collaboration and cooperation between all organisations and in- stitutions which support the promotion of rights and welfare of women and girls: (//www.olympic.org/Documents/Commis- sions_PDFfiles/women_and_sport/Los-An- geles-Declaration-2012.pdf/) Sport and Peace at Community Level For a long time, sport and peace efforts have generally been considered at the grassroots and community level where projects have been implemented long before the MDGs us- ing sport in community for developmental and inclusive purposes. Numerous projects are being implemented all over the world. Just

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