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Judo, as a sport, embodies the ideals highlighted by the United Nations. By its very nature, judo is about participation. It is about inclusion and citizenship. Judo brings individuals and communities together, highlighting commonalities and bridging cultural or ethnic divides. Judo provides a forum to learn skills such as discipline, confidence, and leadership and teaches core principles such as tolerance, cooperation, and respect. Judo teaches the value of effort and how to manage victory as well as defeat. When these positive aspects of judo are emphasised, judo becomes a powerful vehicle through which the United Nations can work towards achieving its goals. In the text, we have substituted judo for the word sport that the UN used. Source: United Nations Inter-Agency, Hartmann, D.; Kwauk, C. (2011). Sport and Development: An Overview, Critique, and Reconstruction. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 35(3) 284-305

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