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Olympic organizers invoke an ancient pledge to call for the suspension of all wars
The United Nations urges a seven-week worldwide ceasefire during the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics to promote peace amid a record number of 61 active armed conflicts in 2024.
- With the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics beginning in one week, the United Nations and Olympic organizers called for a 7-week pause of all wars worldwide, timed to the Games and Paralympics.
- Long ago, the Olympic truce began in ancient Greece and was revived in 1994, producing a brief pause in Sarajevo and now backed by a U.N. General Assembly resolution despite a 0-17 record.
- Amid a more volatile security landscape, Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research reported over 80 conflicts in 2024 and warned of even more in 2025, while Shawn Davies highlighted regional testing and extremist expansion in western Africa.
- Framed as a symbolic plea tied to the Olympic calendar, the Olympic truce shapes diplomatic messaging and humanitarian planners’ efforts despite lacking enforceability.
- With broad governmental support, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and Kirsty Coventry, IOC leader, emphasized sport's power to unite despite signatories violating past truce pledges.
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The United Nations and the organizers of this year's Winter Olympics have called for a pause in all armed conflicts in the world.
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