Q15. Whether the Olympic Games have the effect to decrease the conflicts, such as the terrorism and the wars or not

The simple answer will be: Although there is the symbol of the peace in the Olympic "Olympic Truce," the fact is that there is no difference of the number of the terrorism, whether the Olympics are held or not.

According to the official page of the Olympic, there is the tradition named Olympic Truce, which began in the 9th century BC in Ancient Greece. This tradition was based on the signature of the agreement decided by the three kings. During the time when the Olympic Truce is ongoing, athletes and their families and the other ordinary people could travel to attend the Olympic Games and return to their homeland after the Olympic Games were finished.
After the foundation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it decided to make the ancient tradition of Olympic Truce as the thing to let us think about the peaceful solution for the wars or the terrorism all over the world.

Also, this is the quotes from the official page of the Olympic: https://www.olympic.org/olympic-truce

These are the points of the IOC to encourage:

mobilise youth for the promotion of the Olympic ideals;

use sport to establish contacts between communities in conflict; and

offer humanitarian support in countries at war ; and more generally :

to create a window of opportunities for dialogue and reconciliation

In addition, there is the symbol of Olympic Trace, which is the form of the dove, the symbol of peace. Through this symbol, the hope for the peaceful world and the warm friendship through the Olympic Games is shaped.

However, according to START,  there is no increase or the decrease which is related to the Olympic Games, which was shown by the survey of the number of the terrorism since 1970. But the solution to prevent from the terrorism is inevitable. From the background reports I wrote in the previous blog post in the question 7 (http://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/files/publications/br/TerrorismAndOlympics.pdf), the connection is between the historical backgrounds and the political backgrounds, I think, such as the al Qaida attacked in Europe countries.

Through these point of view, although there is no increase or the decrease which is especially related to Olympics, there is the ideal of the IOC to make the world more peaceful.

I trust these two pages.
The first one is the official pages of the Olympic Games and it describes the symbol of the peace regarding to Olympic Games clearly, so we can understand the information easily and with no bias in this information.
Second, the article from START, it described the connection between the Olympic and the terrorism with the statistics of the survey. I wrote the information of the survey so I did not post here, but I think that through the survey we can rely on this source because of the exact result of the survey.

I think that although the terrorism and the Olympic is no special connection, we should think about the prevention of terrorism more through the Olympic Games. I was impressed by the story of "Olympic Trace." The origin of the ideal of IOC to hope for the peaceful world without violence and the hate is here. To decrease the number of the terrorism and the war, we should cooperate with each other, not only in our own countries but also with the people all over the world, no matter what their religions, genders and the places of birth are. So I think that the Olympic should last forever as the way to hope for the peaceful world. We should think about the world affairs once more and the hope for the world in the future, like the symbol "Olympic Trace"...

That's all for the answering the 15 questions. Thank you for your reading.
From now on, let's think about the Olympic, especially the Tokyo Olympic in 2020, thinking about the issues around the Olympic!!!


【Citaion】

• Olympic Truce. (n.d.). Retrieved July 17, 2016, from https://www.olympic.org/olympic-truce

• Olympics and Terrorism. (2012, July 25). Retrieved July 17, 2016, from http://start.umd.edu/news/olympics-and-terrorism