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Youth Crime Prevention through Sport

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development underlines the growing contribution of sports as a tool for peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect. It also highlights the contributions that sport can make to the empowerment of communities as a whole, to individuals (particularly women and young people) as well as to health, education and social inclusion.

More specifically, sports offer an important opportunity for building life skills of at-risk youth that allow them to better cope with daily life challenges and move away from involvement in violence, crime or drug use.

Youth as agents of change

Through partnerships with Governments, sports organizations and civil society, UNODC conducted a range of national and regional youth-oriented awareness raising sports initiatives which further promoted civic values and disseminated the benefits of sport in keeping youth from becoming involved in crime and violence.

Youth were placed at the centre of outreach activities as agents for change. By sharing their experiences on how sports and life skills training helped them to stay away from crime, youth were engaged and reached out to other at-risk youth.

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UNODC's evidence-informed and sports-based life skills training curriculum was designed as a unique tool that transfers the accumulated expertise of the United Nations and other partners in implementing life skills training for crime and drug use prevention to sport settings.... Read more

Prevent Violent extremism

UNODC supports Member States in their efforts against violent extremism by developing technical guidance materials and building the capacity of policymakers and practitioners on the effective use of sport to address key drivers of violent extremism.... Read more

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Respect, equality and fair play, some of the core values in sport, are also fundamental principles for peaceful and inclusive societies. Sport provides a useful vehicle to build important social and life skills, to support education and learning.... Read more

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