The Right To Play

Canadian NGO is active in 40 countries, healing the effects of violence through sport

Published June 1, 2005

Stephen Owen, the federal Minister for Sport, has seen firsthand the power sport has in bringing peace to children in conflict zones. "The most dramatic and important area, the place where you see the immediate application [of sport for development and peace], is with child soldiers or landmine victims or AIDS orphans, or people just caught up in communal conflict," he explains. "Seeing rehabilitation programs where...

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