After 4 years again, more than a billion viewers all over the world are gazing at their television screen as the host country Germany kicks off the 18th World Cup against Costa Rica on Friday around a tight security.

The World Cup lasting a month , is considered as many as the means of unifying people from all over the world, promoting development,prosperity and harmonity. A group of young people from England headed to Germany only to promote peace at the World Cup as an international bid. For the 2006 Fifa World Cup,UNICEF and FIFA have teamed up to ensure each and every child’s right to a peaceful world.

There has been a belief that sports can be a source of peace dating back to the start of the modern Olympic and holds true for the FIFA World Cup. Sports, indeed helps to foster peace in any community,ethnic group,religion,race ;be it from Khudunbari camp of Bhutanese refugee in Nepal to the people at Ivory Coast at turnmoil of Civil War.

FIFA’s vision has been to develop the game, touch the world and build a better future. Indeed, FIFA intends to anchor its key values of authencity,integrity, performance and unity all around the world.

Let’s hope that this FIFA World Cup 2006 helps to make this world a peaceful place to live in.