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Sports for Peace in South Sudan

PUBLISHED ON: August 27, 2025
By Web Desk

In Western Equatoria States our JRS South Sudan Psychosocial Support team started a school-based club in sports, as complimentary extra-curricular activities. This peace club brings together children from diverse backgrounds through recreational and sporting activities to equip them with effective coping mechanism to mitigate the harmful effect of exposure to violence and essential life skills that promote tolerance, conflict resolution and understanding.

  • Sport is always part of the communities South Sudan we witness every Friday in one of the refugee settlements in gumbo and referendum residential areas in juba, where communities gather every for wrestling followed by a traditional dancing group of communities from around Juba together. Sport is part of the human life wither is walking running wrestling or football soccer, in the south Sudanese communities wrestling hunting is an old version of sport that are still existing, it brings all the community together to watch and celebrates the winner, even the loser forgets his losing with climate of the festive moments everyone is dancing on the drams and the traditional music and songs creating peaceful festive day.

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