THE ROLE OF SPORTS IN NATIONAL PEACE

[Dreadboost]

Yes sports do create peace among nations
It has actually happened before in 1971 where a friendly table tennis opend a door to diplomacy, leading to us president visiting China, where by creating peace between both countries.

[Versatile_choice]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that. 
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

Yeah, I have seen my neighboring village doing that and that's where i had that experience but they didn't just host the match to resolve the issues while playing first of all they host a meeting and the main reason why they call for the meeting is to make peace among themselves so it is after they agreed within themselves that hence forth that there will be no issues so after everything they decided to host a football match just to summarize everything  and I must say that it was fun.

[MRY]

I don't think sporting competitions can promote peace between countries in conflict. Unfortunately, humans haven't yet found a reliable way to prevent natural human aggression from escalating into wars and military conflicts.

It's well known that many sports (for example, boxing, judo, hockey, football) attract highly aggressive men with elevated testosterone levels. It's assumed that these men will excel in these sports and avoid fights and combat. However, in practice, the development of such sports doesn't prevent wars. 🤷

I think wars are started by older men with low testosterone and low sexual potency (and certainly not by athletes). These men are unable to realize their masculine potential; in particular, they can no longer actively participate in sporting competitions as athletes. However, they wield power, meaning they can control millions of people through both persuasion and police force.  This means that, although they are physically weak, they can motivate millions of young, physically strong men to go to war. Therefore, in my opinion, eradicating war through sport is impossible. Although such attempts have been made repeatedly (incidentally, the Olympic Games were revived for this very purpose). The problem, in my opinion, is that wars are started by people who have nothing to do with sport. They have the opportunity, and they take advantage of it. 🙅

The contrast between the format of male athletics and the plans of war of bureau-cracy is a very keen dissection to us. You demonstrate that sport cannot decrease the aggressiveness of the population since it is not the sweats of fieldmen who make up the principal causes of war. The objectives of Olympics will constantly be evasive when those in charge are those who are too much distance to the ideals of physical sporting. This bleak justice assures us that in our pursuit of world peace, a regime of power consideration is much stricter than being a practise of cordial competition.

[DiMarxist]

What we have to note is that sport generally is a unifier it brings people together in the sense that sporting activities has a way of uniting people of all races irrespective of colour, tribe and even religious sentiments. When you go  to a local viewing centre were football matches are been watched that is when you will appreciate what am saying better, even enemies who are supporting one team all dit down together and watch the game together having the same thoughts when arguments comes up especially from the opposing supporters. Sport is one tool that government can use to bring people together especially the youths in a country because sport connects people together.

[Emeraldo]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that. 
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

The aim of competition is not only to bring peace with the both teams or communities that are playing for a winner..
Even though sports have brought some kind peace to the world, we should not forget that many of these games are rigged for the super countries or country that hosted the competition. We have seen this in many occasions and it is not something we need to agitate about rightnow. Sport is playing it own role in bringing harmony to the countries involved and it can also create hatred also rigging becomes obvious.

[Tonimez]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that. 
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

The aim of competition is not only to bring peace with the both teams or communities that are playing for a winner..
Even though sports have brought some kind peace to the world, we should not forget that many of these games are rigged for the super countries or country that hosted the competition. We have seen this in many occasions and it is not something we need to agitate about rightnow. Sport is playing it own role in bringing harmony to the countries involved and it can also create hatred also rigging becomes obvious.

Peace and bonding internationally is one of the major reasons for international sports competitions and aside corruption, that aim has been achieved for long. Football and other sports competitions help in holding nations together by ensuring safety and also could affect the way people see things. There has been nations who are seen as hostile nations and they don't participate in sports when they're suspected to be a threat to other nations.

Let's talk about the Russian team suspension from FIFA and Uefa games due to their unlawful inversion of Ukraine which is a strategic approach to ensuring that peace returns to the region. This is simple, to be able to participate in such international games, they have to accept peace and this is one of the ways that sports competitions bring peace to concerned nations and the entire world. No country would like to attack another country when they have their citizens in their enemy countries. At least, not when their citizens are still in those countries, this helps to secure the lives of everyone there and ensure lasting peace. No matter the level of corruption in those sports competitions, Peace is still part of the goals and there are bound to be prizes because it is a competition and nations too spend fortunes to be able to participate.

[AmoreJaz]

What we have to note is that sport generally is a unifier it brings people together in the sense that sporting activities has a way of uniting people of all races irrespective of colour, tribe and even religious sentiments. When you go  to a local viewing centre were football matches are been watched that is when you will appreciate what am saying better, even enemies who are supporting one team all dit down together and watch the game together having the same thoughts when arguments comes up especially from the opposing supporters. Sport is one tool that government can use to bring people together especially the youths in a country because sport connects people together.

What I have read before in reference to this kind situation was whenever Manny Pacquiao has a boxing fight, his country was always like unified, no traffic, very little to no crime rate recorded. As everyone was glued to their TV screens and shops offering live streaming of his fights, they didn't have the time to roam around but stay inside to watch. It was like there were ghost towns across the nations but the truth was, most of them were inside to wait and watch his fight. So for me, that's one evidence that a sports can really unify a country.  Those were the golden era of Pacquiao in boxing. And they called it the "Pac-Man Effect."

Fact Check: Philippines crime rate hits 0% when Manny Pacquiao fights

[Accardo]

The aim of competition is not only to bring peace with the both teams or communities that are playing for a winner..
Even though sports have brought some kind peace to the world, we should not forget that many of these games are rigged for the super countries or country that hosted the competition. We have seen this in many occasions and it is not something we need to agitate about rightnow. Sport is playing it own role in bringing harmony to the countries involved and it can also create hatred also rigging becomes obvious.

Sports, more than anythingelse, unites people from different nations to share a common ground for discussion and arguement. A team may end up conflicted due to the dismay of officials and all, that was with the players, but spectators do have a great time with one another in the stadium, this brings change of contacts, diversed business opportunities and most of all peace of mind for viewers who would intend to travel to the country they once competed with on the pitch and because they've met a friend in the stadium they can easily go there with no fear of anykind, their friend could even welcome them and show them around.

[Hispo]

Yes sports do create peace among nations
It has actually happened before in 1971 where a friendly table tennis opend a door to diplomacy, leading to us president visiting China, where by creating peace between both countries.

Sports are always good for a country and to get international recognition, there is no doubt about it. But I feel you are over-estimating the value sport has for countries to keep being friendly towards one another, you know.
We are going through very weird times on this planey, where there seems to be more wars than ever and world powers like the United States and China are using their influence in order to push their national interest forwards, in detriment of other smaller and less powerful countries.

Those are situations which are pretty out of what sports can easily change or fix. When the war of Russia against Ukraine started, nobody suggested it was possible to stop hostilities by having a football match between Russia and Ukraine...

[iBaba]

Yes sports do create peace among nations
It has actually happened before in 1971 where a friendly table tennis opend a door to diplomacy, leading to us president visiting China, where by creating peace between both countries.

I agree with you, the table tennis championship was actually hosted by Japan and I think the Chinese president then used the medium of the tournament to send a very surprising invitation to the US team which was said to have initiated what they call the Ping Pong diplomacy which at that time was very instrumental in melting the decades of cold war hostility between the United States of America and the China.

This was during the regime of President Richard Nixon and his Chinese counterpart who were Mao Zedong who was the chairman of their communist party of China and the then premier of the people's republic of China, Zhou Enlai. This is to tell you how strong and effective sports can become the beacon of peace even among top countries in the world with examples of historical events like this when I will say the wars were more religious and radical than now.

Yeah, I have seen my neighboring village doing that and that's where i had that experience but they didn't just host the match to resolve the issues while playing first of all they host a meeting and the main reason why they call for the meeting is to make peace among themselves so it is after they agreed within themselves that hence forth that there will be no issues so after everything they decided to host a football match just to summarize everything  and I must say that it was fun.

Even in my village we still practice that today where community leaders and politicians organize local football tournaments justly to strengthen the peaceful coexistence between our community and the neighboring communities, they also use that avenue to speak to the young people and preach to them the huge advantages that come with relating and living peacefully among themselves.

[Pi-network314159]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that.  
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

I don't see this kind of sports as game that brings peace between community. Local fixed matches are just one of those entertainment games that is used to bring communities together just to have fun or test each other capacity or strength when it comes to the Best in football. Apart from that there is nothing like peace because even on the peach if the referee doesn't judge fairly, it will result to inter community fight, so what is the essense of peace when they might even fight in the middle of the game if it happens not to play as expected.

[nimogsm]

Yeah, I have seen my neighboring village doing that and that's where i had that experience but they didn't just host the match to resolve the issues while playing first of all they host a meeting and the main reason why they call for the meeting is to make peace among themselves so it is after they agreed within themselves that hence forth that there will be no issues so after everything they decided to host a football match just to summarize everything  and I must say that it was fun.

Even in my village we still practice that today where community leaders and politicians organize local football tournaments justly to strengthen the peaceful coexistence between our community and the neighboring communities, they also use that avenue to speak to the young people and preach to them the huge advantages that come with relating and living peacefully among themselves.

Sport brings people together, that's true. When I was at school, we played football, first between schools in the district and then between schools in the city, and there was no animosity, just sporting interest and new acquaintances. The most interesting thing is that I still keep in touch with several people from that time, as we sometimes crossed paths at work, and these acquaintances came in very handy. It is important to determine your starting position. If you go to a match with hostility in advance, it will not end well, but if you go with good intentions, it will be better for everyone.

[davis196]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that. 
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

Do you really believe that this topic has something to do with sports betting? I can't find any relation between such topic and sports betting.
I remember hearing a story about a "football war" between Honduras and El Salvador, which happened more than 50 years ago. This is the only war in history, which was caused by a football match(the reasons for the war were mostly economic, but whatever). I've never heard about a football match being fixed, just for the sake of preventing mass rebellions and conflicts between communities, tribes, ethnic minorities or anything of this sort. The people must be really dumb, if they start a war or a rebellion just because a stupid football game(or any other sports event) ended in a result they don't like.

[Nwada001]

Yes sports do create peace among nations
It has actually happened before in 1971 where a friendly table tennis opend a door to diplomacy, leading to us president visiting China, where by creating peace between both countries.

Sport helps to promote peace, but there should be some sort of diplomatic talk between both countries first before anything that has to do with any of them visiting the next country because of sport.

For security reasons, the sport can then bring them together for a meet and greet, and then they can shake hands together, which will be viewed in public, and both countries can rejoice together, not just both presidents.

[Lida93]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that. 
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

Do you really believe that this topic has something to do with sports betting? I can't find any relation between such topic and sports betting.
I remember hearing a story about a "football war" between Honduras and El Salvador, which happened more than 50 years ago. This is the only war in history, which was caused by a football match(the reasons for the war were mostly economic, but whatever). I've never heard about a football match being fixed, just for the sake of preventing mass rebellions and conflicts between communities, tribes, ethnic minorities or anything of this sort. The people must be really dumb, if they start a war or a rebellion just because a stupid football game(or any other sports event) ended in a result they don't like.

Here i think what @Youngrebel is making is about a match fixture that's done between two different communities to be played as part of fostering peace between the locals in those communities and putting an end to probably a long time conflict. Maybe the word "fixed" is what has created the misunderstanding that it's about match fixing (rigging). Sports is an activity that actually fosters peace and in  some places football match are use to entertain the people after peace may have being brokered.

[Johnlomape]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that. 
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

Yeah, I have seen my neighboring village doing that and that's where i had that experience but they didn't just host the match to resolve the issues while playing first of all they host a meeting and the main reason why they call for the meeting is to make peace among themselves so it is after they agreed within themselves that hence forth that there will be no issues so after everything they decided to host a football match just to summarize everything  and I must say that it was fun.

Sport is really uniting different countries and we might not be seeing the reality how sport has become so relevant in this era. It is not only in the area of uniting the world but also  creating job opportunities for people around the world as sport becomes more advanced with different tools being brought together to make it efficient with less cheating. Communities and villages might have been using sport to reconcile with each other to have a nice play time with one another which is another usefulness of sport.

[o48o]

I don't think sporting competitions can promote peace between countries in conflict. Unfortunately, humans haven't yet found a reliable way to prevent natural human aggression from escalating into wars and military conflicts.

It's well known that many sports (for example, boxing, judo, hockey, football) attract highly aggressive men with elevated testosterone levels. It's assumed that these men will excel in these sports and avoid fights and combat. However, in practice, the development of such sports doesn't prevent wars. 🤷

I think wars are started by older men with low testosterone and low sexual potency (and certainly not by athletes). These men are unable to realize their masculine potential; in particular, they can no longer actively participate in sporting competitions as athletes. However, they wield power, meaning they can control millions of people through both persuasion and police force.  This means that, although they are physically weak, they can motivate millions of young, physically strong men to go to war. Therefore, in my opinion, eradicating war through sport is impossible. Although such attempts have been made repeatedly (incidentally, the Olympic Games were revived for this very purpose). The problem, in my opinion, is that wars are started by people who have nothing to do with sport. They have the opportunity, and they take advantage of it. 🙅

And who in here claimed that wars are related to sports, since you seem to want to deny it?

But since you seem to be claiming the opposite without any proof, may i point out that being a warmonger has nothing do with someone being athletic or not.

Vladimir Putin, who is seen to be this hyper-masculine poster boy of testosterone has black belt in Judo, has started war with Ukraine. So let's start from there, as that clashes immediately with your theory.

And actually there are ways prevent escalation. There are hundreds of studies on the subject and literal jobs in governments focused solely on that. Funny enough current US administration for example, has recently broke lot of mechanisms they have build to stabilize relationships and whole regions. And they have done a lot create more tension that might escalate and spill all over them.

Simplistic one to promote peace, that effortlessly fits to capitalistic world are multilateral trade agreements. Parties involved benefit from each other, so they don't want to poke the bear (in good and bad).

Sports can be seem more like symbolic gesture, but imho that can backfire as it can be seen legitimation of atrocities of a region, when they are invited as equals- It's like some weird world wide family dinner of abusers, bystanders and victims, pretending that nothing is wrong here. That's my 2 sats anyway.

[alastantiger]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that.  
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

I think sporting activities absolutely can play a role in bringing peace but it depends on how intentional the organizers and participants are about it. At the community level, games can create shared experiences and break down stereotypes and give people a chance to interact outside of usual tensions like players from different backgrounds collaborating and cheering for each other or simply having fun together, i have experienced a few local communities do this, especially during festive periods but now on a larger scale, national or international sports can promote dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect, because they show people the human side of “the other” and of course some just play for the fun of the game, but even in those cases, the simple act of competing fairly and enjoying each other’s company can still foster understanding and reduce conflict over time.

If you have noticed during national games like World Cup or Olympics especially back then, when it was those period you could see how for a brief moment countries would be treating with each other so yeah sporting activities does have an effect on peace in the general sense, it just depends on how the organizers use the opportunity.

[Odusko]

I've heard a couple of times were people say a match is fixed to fauster peace between communities.  Players come together and play locally have fun and close.
Does sporting activities really play a role of bring peace to communities or even nations? If yes kindly state some ways it plays that. 
Or do they just play these games just first the fun of the games and leave?

Some matches can be fixed but not so common because of recent international attention on sporting events, this is clear indication that the possibility of having a match fixed the n this era is becoming very rare and uncommon to see, even if community practices at stake, football matches are real live events and any form of manipulation of the process is somewhat tempering with the fun and reality of the game being competitive.

[alani123]

There are countries where there's plenty of different population groups and in these occasions if football and generally sports associations aren't corrupt they can help foster better community between people of different backgrounds.

Sadly though competitive sports teams are mostly controlled by wealthy elites who seek to exploit communal differences for profit so for them playing out these stereotypes is in their interests. Maybe in a world where sports aren't controlled by money sports can contribute more to peace.

You can see an example of sports being more divisive in the winter Olympics where Russia is excluded while the olympic committee hadn't done anything against Israel who is committing a genocide.