About the Truce Foundation
Transforming the Olympic Truce tradition into action for global peace
Featured Analysis
Critical perspectives on peace and conflict
In Ethiopia, an Unfinished Peace Risks Betraying the People of Tigray
Examining the fragile state of the Pretoria Agreement, with 600,000 civilians killed and 760,000+ internally displaced.
By Sarah Miller & Abdullahi Boru Halakhe
Publications by Hugh Dugan
Founder's writings on the Olympic Truce
Can the Olympics Help Us Understand Each Other?
Writing from Paris about the 2024 Olympics, Dugan introduces "Geolympics" — tracking the Olympic Truce's real-time effects on international relations.
May Olympic Truce Day Align our Troubled World Through Sport
A proposal to establish February 29 (leap day) as "Olympic Truce Day" to promote global peace through athletics.
Reference Materials
Key reports and analysis on global conflicts
Maritime Intelligence Brief: Expanding Risks in the Red Sea and Black Sea
Analysis of maritime threats affecting global shipping routes, including Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Russian naval operations in the Black Sea.
Landmine Crisis: Casualties Rising as Funding Falls
Mine action workers warn that the deadly legacy of conflicts continues to kill and maim civilians in Gaza, Sudan, and beyond while facing significant funding cuts.
Olympic Truce Award Recipients
Honoring leaders who champion peace through sport
H.E. Kostas Karamanlis
Prime Minister
Greece
H.E. George Papandreou
Foreign Minister
Greece
Mitt Romney
President, Salt Lake Olympic Games
USA
H.E. Gianfranco Fini
Foreign Minister
Italy
Peter Ueberroth
President, US Olympic Committee
USA
H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo
President
Nigeria
H.E. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President
Liberia
H.S.H. Prince Albert II
Sovereign Prince
Monaco
H.E. Lillian Boyce
Minister
Turks and Caicos
Juan Antonio Samaranch
President-Emeritus, IOC
Spain
H.E. Cai Mingzhao
Vice Minister
China
Irwin Belk
Co-founder, US Olympic Committee
USA
Richard C. Levin
President, Yale University
USA
Lord Michael Bates
Olympic Truce Advocate, House of Lords
United Kingdom
Mario Pescante
Vice President, IOC
Italy
Anita DeFrantz
Vice President, IOC
USA
Wilfried Lemke
Special Advisor on Sport for Peace, UN
Germany
Andrew Parsons
President, Brazilian Paralympics
Brazil
Carlos Henrique Schroder
General Director, Globo TV
Brazil
Admiral James G. Stavridis
Supreme Allied Commander-Europe, NATO
USA
Choi Moon-soon
Governor, Gangwon Province
Republic of Korea
Lee Hee-beom
President, PyeongChang Olympic Committee
Republic of Korea
Miroslav L. Lajcak
President, UN 72nd General Assembly
Slovakia
The Olympic Truce Sculpture
The Foundation's monument "Olympic Truce" by Rosa Serra (Spain, 2001) stands at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland — a permanent symbol of the world's oldest peace tradition.
Olympic Museum, Lausanne



