Sport, peace and safe communities
In collaboration with sports and criminal justice organisations, the IOC is strengthening the contribution of sport to community crime prevention. This includes addressing risk factors for anti-social behaviour and youth crime, promoting sport-based life skills development and education as preventative tools, and supporting people to make positive social connections in and through sport.
Programmes
Sport and Youth Crime Prevention
Launched in 2022, SC:ORE - Sport against Crime: Outreach- Resilience- Empowerment is a joint IOC-UN Office of Drugs and Crime initiative helping to prevent and combat violence and crime through sport-based learning and skills training. Key efforts include:
- Delivering capacity building and guidance toolkits on how sport can be used in youth crime prevention and for at-risk youth.
- Policy workshops and training to enhance the capacity of the sports and criminal justice sectors to use sport to promote positive youth development, and the prevention of youth violence and crime through sport.
- Piloting sport-based youth crime prevention programmes delivered jointly by sports and criminal justice organisations.