May 26, 2025
Sports as Tool for Peace Resolution
Sports as Tool for Peace. George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner for literature, who died in 1950, credited with saying that sport does not contribute to international understanding, but rather “increases the fierce hatred between nations and sows discord even among those peoples who otherwise have no natural reason to quarrel.” Nelson Mandela, the South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who died in 2013, contradicted the unifying power of sport, stating: “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. And just as sport can contribute to peacemaking and
