9 March 2021 – Sport-based learning has become a part of most educational systems around the world, but it is also increasingly recognized as an essential component of crime prevention, especially for at-risk youth. When sports activities are paired with life skills training, as they are in UNODC’s Line Up, Live Up initiative, they become a unique tool to affect social change and development.
Line Up, Live Up is an innovative method, on both the physical and intellectual levels, to train young people to stay away from trouble while developing resilience. With this evidence-based curriculum that uses sports and life skills, UNODC has focused on engaging youth from marginalized and at-risk communities, promoting sports while inculcating and strengthening positive life skills and values which can help young people better navigate daily challenges in life. It contributes to improving young people’s personal and social skills, to affecting their attitudes and beliefs with regards to violence, crime and drug use, and to enhancing their self-motivation, self-confidence and feelings of self-worth.
In an Ancillary Event at the 14th Crime Congress in Kyoto, UNODC experts discussed this approach with Sultan bin Salmeen Al Mansouri, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in Vienna; Daniela Bas, Director of the Division for Inclusive Social Development at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Paul Hendricks, Director of Sport Development at the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, South Africa; Rita Deaibess, Head of Juvenile Wing in Roumieh Prison, Lebanon; Chinara Maatkerimova, Acting Head of the International Cooperation and Investments Department, Ministry of Education and Science, Kyrgyzstan; and Hala Khalaf, Head of Programmes at the Streefootball World Organization.
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