INTERVIEW
Joёl Bouzou:
«how sport can heal the world»
Joёl Bouzou today is the president and founder of the organisation Peace and Sport. After ending his
sporting career in 1992 he devoted his time in promoting sport in another way, aiming to achieve peace,
social cohesion, and integration.
Жоэль Бузу — президент и основатель организации «Peace and Sport». После окончания спортивной
карьеры в 1992 году он посвящает все свое время продвижению спорта для решения проблем социальной
сплоченности и единства.
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n 1991 Mr Bouzou founded the association «Rassemble-
ment par le Sport» («Together through Sport») and cre-
ated the «Champions in the Street» program, which helps
the social integration of young people through sport in
city suburbs, using champions as role models. During
10 years of its existence, «Rassemblement par le Sport»
helped to bring 20,000 young people off the streets on a long-
term basis by involving them in a sporting activity. He gradually
developed the ambition of creating a project based on sport that
would contribute to the process of keeping peace and support
development.
Launched in 2009 by Peace and Sport, the Champions of
Peace Club brings together more than 100 high-level, active or
retired, athletes who want to put sport and their experience to
work in the service of peace. Their collective actions and their
commitment contribute every day to demonstrate that sport is
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going way beyond athletic performance and plays a real role in
benefiting society.
Peace and Sport is a neutral Monaco-based organisation created in
2007 under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II. Its objective
is to bring the values of sport, including discipline and organisation and
structure, to the heart of communities in crisis throughout the world,
making sport a vehicle for tolerance, respect and citizenship in the
service of sustainable peace.
This year the organisation will celebrate its 10 year anniversary and on
this occasion, it will hold an anniversary edition of the Peace and Sport
International Forum. The Forum will be organised in Monaco from 6th
to 8th December. Peace and Sport International Forum is the largest
global event convening the world of sport for peace. Each year, the
Forum has united more than 600 major decision-makers from over 110
countries including Heads of State, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, sports
governing bodies and high-level athletes, international organizations,