Spotlight on power of sports in preventing violent extremism

Qatar organised a high-level roundtable on the protection of major sporting events and the use of sport values-based initiatives for preventing violent extremism (PVE), in partnership with the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT)’s Global Sports Programme, Generation Amazing, the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC), the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), and the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), on the sidelines of the Doha Forum, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported on Monday.