Sport as a peacebuilding tool
If you are against existence, you are in war. If you are with existence, you are in peace.
PEACE ATHLETE began as judo. It is only the beginning. Slowly it moves from athlete to PA — more open, because at the end it could also be for all of us. We start with what I have, and it will naturally become more.
My vision is to create so many small peace centres that you can travel from peace centre to peace centre, and you are always welcome. We do not wait for government. We do not wait for big money. Everyone can establish a peace centre. My home in Hannover, for example, is a peace centre — people know exactly what they can find there, and some just come to charge their battery and gain their goal. And that is totally fine.
Explore the projects
The five projects
Five projects, one movement. Each one is a way in — to join, to watch, to support.
01
Shugaa Nashwan
The connecting point to every project
My name means courage in Arabic. Judo is my access to life — and every project on this site grows out of the same wish: that people find peace in themselves.
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Peace Certificate
Not skills. Alignment.
A certification designed for leaders — because where leaders are, they can influence a great many more people.
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Bike to the Roots
Peace movement on wheels
Nine people, one self-built trailer, and the world. One hour online every day — stories, song, meditation.
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Yemen
The huge thing that needs support
In 2020 I saw a peace centre in Yemen. Nothing physical stood there. Then I realised: the peace centre is you.
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Save Soil
The base of our life
Soil is the base of our life, and you will see everything I do is connected to it. Yemen has miserable soil — support the farmers there and they become independent.
Learn more →By the numbers
44
paintings of the Yemen journey on exhibition
9
travellers on Bike to the Roots
1 h
of live content, every day, on the road
1000
runners we want in the Save Soil half marathon
Where this is going
It will not switch — but PEACE ATHLETE will be more than athlete. It will also be artist, and therefore dancing will come, singing will come. I am looking forward to experiencing it. I am not pushing it. It is simply the very beginning of what is there.
The peace centre is you. Before it becomes visible, it has to be established in your system.