World Youth Forum on Sport, Culture and Peace

26 August 2014

International Youth Cultural Center, Nanjing, China

Organized by:

Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee (NYOGOC)

UNESCO

All-China Youth Federation (ACYF)

Implemented by:

Nanjing International Culture Exchanges Association

Nanjing Youth Federation

09:30-09:45 Opening Ceremony

MC: Xu Ning, President of Nanjing International Culture Exchanges

Association

1) Yang Weize, NYOGOC Executive Chairman, Party Secretary of

Nanjing

2) All-China Youth Federation Official

3) Hans d’Orville, Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning,

UNESCO

09:45-10:00 Tea Break

10:00-12:00 Session One: Youth, Violence Prevention and Peace

Discussions will focus on means to reinforce the participation of

young women and men at local level and particularly in urban

settings, so as to engage them as meaningful actors of peace and

prevent violence affecting them.

Moderator: Young journalist, Phoenix TV

Panel participants:

1) Craig Kielburger, Co-founder of ME TO WE and Free The

Children

2) Shi Yongxin, 30th Abbot of Shaolin Temple, Vice President of

the Buddhist Association of China

3) Daniel Rondeau, French writer, UNU representative to UNESCO

4) Li Ruohong, Chairman of the China World Peace Foundation，

Professor of the University of Alberta, Canada

5) Good practice sharing: Luke Dowdney, Founder and Director of

Fight for Peace

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session Two: Sport for Social Inclusion

Discussions will focus on sports as a socially integrative force and the

conveyor of values of peace, particularly among youth, placing

specific accent on the use and role of sport in urban areas.

Moderator: Bai Yansong, CCTV anchor

Panel participants:

1) Ana-Luz Thirifays, International Development Manager, Peace and

Sport – Monaco

2) Stephanie AU, Olympic Swimmer, Young Ambassador of NYOG

3) Good practice sharing: Honey Thaljieh, Former Captain, Palestine

Women’s National Football Team

4) Good practice sharing: Cynthia Coredo, Young leader, BoxGirls

Kenya project

5) Good practice sharing: Xin Fu, Founder of China Mushroom

Manor

15:00-15:15 Tea Break

15:15-16:45 Session Three: Heritage and Creativity for Sustainable

Development

Discussions will focus on the contribution of culture to community

development and dialogue, through the promotion and protection of

intangible and city heritage, and through actions fostering creativity

and innovation.

Moderator: Li Bo, Professor of Nanjing Normal University, Curator of

Jiangningzhizao museum

Panel participants:

1) Miranda Kiuri, Doctor in Architecture, University of Liège (on

Olympic legacy and heritage)

2) Zhang Jun, Kunqu Opera actor , UNESCO Artist for Peace

3) Shao Yong, Professor of Tongji University (College of Architecture

and Urban Planning), Professor of the UNESCO World Heritage

Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific

Region

4) Good practice sharing: Wang Danqing, International Youth

Volunteer program coordinator and World Heritage Volunteer

team leader, Chinese Society of Education Training Center

16:45-17:00 Tea Break

17:00-17:30 Closing Ceremony

MC: Xu Ning, President of Nanjing International Culture Exchanges

Association

Speakers:

1) Reading of Nanjing Initiative, by youth representatives from

Nanjing

2) Miao Ruilin, Mayor of Nanjing

3) Hans d’Orville, Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning,

UNESCO

4) Photo taking with officials and participants

18:00-19:30 Banquet

20:00-21:00 Boat tour on Qinhuai River

The Nanjing Initiative, to be drafted by youth, will include recommendations in the

fields of sports, culture and peace, and will launch a call for projects as a concrete

follow-up to this first edition. It will also announce the continuity of the Forum and

the nature of its biennial editions.