Building a Peaceful and Better World Through Sport and the Olympic Ideal

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 45b Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, published in 2007.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 1997–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/8

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/8	Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal	2,381	67%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/10	Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal	2,232	72%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/13	Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal	2,123	77%Compare
2019	A/RES/74/16	Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal	2,198	77%Compare
2017	A/RES/72/6	Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal	1,964	67%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Beijing (China)China Cooperation Between Organizations International Organizations International Years Olympic Games Peace Sports

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Urges Member States to observe, within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, the Olympic Truce, individually and collectively, during the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, the vision of which is based on the slogan “One world, one dream”, and the Paralympic Games which follow it;

Welcomes the decision of the International Olympic Committee to mobilize international sports organizations and the National Olympic Committees of the Member States to undertake concrete actions at the local, national, regional and world levels to promote and strengthen a culture of peace and harmony based on the spirit of the Olympic Truce;

Calls upon all Member States to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in its efforts to use sport as an instrument to promote peace, dialogue and reconciliation in areas of conflict during and beyond the Olympic Games period;

Welcomes the increased implementation of projects for peace, development and human understanding through sport, and encourages Member States and all concerned agencies and programmes of the United Nations system to strengthen their work in this field, in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee;

Requests the Secretary-General to promote the observance of the Olympic Truce among Member States and support for human development initiatives through sport, and to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee and the sporting community in general in the realization of those objectives;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session the sub-item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and to consider the sub-item before the XXI Olympic Winter Games, to be held in Vancouver, Canada, in 2010.

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