Sports serve for education, development and peace, can promote cooperation, solidarity, mutual understanding, social inclusion and health at local, national and international scale. From time immemorial, sport has also been known to play an important role in promoting solidarity, social integration, and peaceful coexistence.
- Reality has shown that sport is also an instrument of peace. Because of sport's unique appeal and collective power as well as its non-political character, sport is often used to re-establish dialogue in political, cultural or religious tensions.
- Sports also contribute to the economic, social and even personal development of people of all ages, especially young people. Sports-related activities can create jobs and generate economic activity on many levels.