The organisation, which aims to deploy educational programs through sport across the globe, announced the new partnerships at the closing ceremony of the 4th Peace and Sport International Forum in Monaco.

The federations are: International Baseball Federation, International Boxing Association, International Federation of Sport Climbing, International Fencing Federation, World Karate Federation, International Federation of Muay Thai Amateur, International Federation of Netball Associations, International Table Soccer Federation, Ju-Jitsu International Federation, International Softball Federation, World Squash Federation, World Taekwondo Federation, International Taekwondo Federation and the International Volleyball Federation.

The partnerships will reinforce Peace and Sport's field capacity by bringing support, technical and human resources and expertise from international federations, resulting in concrete action to reconcile communities, to promote dialogue and to reintegrate vulnerable young people back into society in regions affected by post conflict, extreme poverty or lack of social cohesion.

With the support of their national federations, these new members of the Peace and Sport family will provide equipment - via their sports equipment partners - and expertise to Peace and Sport's locally-based projects in Côte d'Ivoire, the Great Lakes region in Africa, Israel-Palestine, Colombia and East Timor.

They are also helping to develop their sport in new regions while assisting vulnerable communities.

Peace and Sport provides federations with a complete platform for operational cooperation, where their skills will be optimised and integrated into global projects, supported at the highest political level.

President and Founder of Peace and Sport, Joel Bouzou (pictured), said in his closing speech: "Peace and Sport is still a very young organisation that has existed for just four years.

"Our only worth is the worth of the platform we run, and this is your platform: governments, sports institutions, local and national NGOs, partners from the private sector, press, and champions.

"Alone, isolated we are worth nothing.

"Together, with efficient networking, we can demonstrate that sport has a positive influence on the world's direction and give many examples of concrete action to illustrate this.

"I warmly thank the international federations who have joined us today, who will give an added impetus to our action on all continents."


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