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Initiatives
Generations for PeaceGenerations For Peace Training Camps
Generations For Peace brings together leaders of youth from divided communities and trains them how to use sport to unite children and youth. As importantly they are trained how to cascade the learning back home – training other trainers and planning and implementing sporting programmes with children.
Within three years our target is to have 6,000 youth leaders trained and up to 250,000 children from all sides of their divides participating in Generations For Peace programmes.
The Generations For Peace curriculum uses a series of workshops, interactive seminars, presentations, debates, dialogue, role-play and sporting sessions and includes topics such as: leadership, teamwork, building dialogue, tolerance and respect, anger management, conflict transformation, peace education, working with children & youth, self confidence, sport, religion and politics.
Women and Sport
The issue of Women and Sport has long been a priority for Jordan which is at the
forefront of ensuring women are treated on an equal footing as men across all
sectors in the Arab World.
The JOC’s efforts received a massive boost in April 2006 when President, HRH
Prince Feisal Al Hussein, was elected to serve on the IOC Women and Sport
Commission.
Jordan’s talented female athletes have been winning medals internationally for
many years and women are taking a bigger role within the administration and
organization of sport Jordan. Over 50 per cent of the staff at the JOC is now
female.
The JOC Women and Sport Committee is working in compliance with the IOC charter
and is playing a lead role in making sport an attractive proposition to women
the length and breadth of the Kingdom.
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Sports and Environment
Protecting the environment has become one of the planet’s burning issues and in
compliance with the IOC charter, the JOC has formed the ‘Sport and Environment’
Committee.
The committee has formed strategic alliances with a number of entities across
Jordan to ensure that sport plays its role in protecting and enhancing the world
we live in.
Already under its belt was a mass clean up and clearing exercise in an are of
exquisite beauty to the north of Jordan which is being earmarked as a botanical
garden and a possible future venue for cross country biking and running events.
Thanks to the efforts of the Sports and Environment Committee, all Jordan
federations have placed the topic high on their priority list to ensure that
sport and the environment run hand in hand in the future.
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