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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 22 Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal, published in 2000.

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?

7 subjects

Dispute Settlement Education for Peace Olympic Games Peace Physical Education Public Opinion Sports

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Urges Member States to observe the Olympic Truce during the games of the XXVII Olympiad, to be held at Sydney, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000, the vision of which, at the dawn of the new millennium, is to be a highly harmonious, athlete-oriented and environmentally committed Olympic Games;

Also urges Member States to take the initiative to abide by the Olympic Truce, individually and collectively, and to pursue, in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the peaceful settlement of all international conflicts through diplomatic solutions;

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

Reaffirms the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, adopted in its resolution 53/243, and in this context welcomes the decision of the International Olympic Committee to mobilize all international sports organizations and National Olympic Committees of the Member States to undertake concrete action at the local, national, regional and world levels to promote and strengthen a culture of peace based on the spirit of the Olympic Truce;

Welcomes the setting up by the International Olympic Committee of an International Olympic Forum for Development, a platform for consultation between intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations on issues related to the development of physical education and sport for all, and an International Centre for the Olympic Truce to promote peace and human values through sport and the Olympic ideal;

Requests the Secretary-General to promote the observance of the Olympic Truce among Member States, drawing the attention of world public opinion to the contribution such a truce would make to the promotion of international understanding and the preservation of peace and goodwill, and to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in the realization of this objective;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” and to consider this item before the XIX Olympic Winter Games, to be held at Salt Lake City, United States of America, in 2002.

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