Extraordinary Vision, Concrete Goals

"Extraordinary! I wish there had been a Scholar-Athlete Games program during my youth."
- President Bill Clinton, in his 2006 keynote address at the World Scholar-Athlete Games

• The World Youth Peace Summit's goals reach beyond simply creating an atmosphere of goodwill and good intentions.
• Participants will be tasked with bringing to the Summit a "Pathways to Peace" proposal.
• Each proposal will be further developed with other participants and the Summit staff into a specific, concrete project designed to create a compelling peace initiative in their communities, one that will take root, flourish and, ideally, interconnect with other globally-minded peace initiatives around the world.

Our Vision

Irenic - (def.) Promoting Peace
Our vision of the future was forged at the very early stages of the Institute for International Sport. At the first Institute Board of Trustees meeting in October, 1986, Dan Doyle presented the concept of the World Scholar-Athlete Games. By 1989, Dan and the board decided to move forward with the inaugural 1993 World Scholar-Athlete Games. The objective of the Games was not merely a short-term event, but an ongoing program that would form the basis of a global network of scholar-athletes and scholar-artists committed to the highest ideals of sport and the arts - and with a broader commitment to world peace.
Our vision is the creation of a global peace movement that will involve tens of thousands of people around the world who share a love of sport and/or the arts - and who share a passion for world peace. The vision encompasses not just the idealistic notion of peace, but positive action in the form of literally thousands of Pathways to Peace projects that will be created during the World Youth Peace Summit, initiated following the Summit, and, with the help of our office of Social Entrepreneurship, administered for generations to come.
The Institute's vision is to help foster an irenic attitude on a world scale.