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Nick Keller, Founder of Beyond Sport, opened the final and main day of the Beyond Sport Summit with a welcome, Sport does not solve wars, it cannot be

An announcement was made that influential figures from Israel and Palestine had met during the previous day of the event and agreed to take steps forward through sporting programmes that could help to mend the deep divide between their two territories.

"Sport does not solve wars, it cannot be used to create peace," Keller has said, but it can be used in an effort to make a small action to drive a positive view into a remaining conflict.

The first panel this morning may touch upon those issues, as Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister and currently Middle East peace envoy, will join other leaders such as Prince Faisal of Jordan, founder of Generations for Peace, Lord Puttnam of UNICEF, Marcus Agius from Barclays and Dikembe Mutumbo, a former NBA player who set up a foundation is his native country of Congo to build hospitals for those less fortunate.

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