About us
- Fight for Peace is founded as a project of the Rio de Janeiro-based NGO Viva Rio
Luke Dowdney publishes ‘Children of the Drug Trade: a case study of children in organised armed violence in Rio de Janeiro’
- Luke Dowdney receives an MBE from Queen Elizabeth for “services to the prevention of violence and exploitation of children in Brazil”
Fight for Peace moves to its current headquarters, in the favela of Nova Holanda, Rio de Janeiro- Luke Dowdney publishes Neither War nor Peace, a case study that investigates organised armed groups, and child and youth involvement within them, in ten countries across four continents
- Fight for Peace undergoes successful external evaluation by CLAVES (Latin American Centre for the Study of Violence and Health)
- Fight for Peace opens in London to replicate its methodology established in Rio de Janeiro
- Fight for Peace in Rio de Janeiro becomes an independent NGO
- Luke Dowdney receives the Laureus Sport for Good award in Barcelona, Spain
- Fight for Peace receives the title of OSCIP (Civil Society Organisation of Public Interest)
- Luke Dowdney is invited by former Prime Minister Tony Blair to become a Beyond Sport Ambassador
- Olympics minister Tessa Jowell visits Fight for Peace in Rio de Janeiro
- In Rio, a total of 837 young people participate in activities at Fight for Peace and in London, 881 young people join the Academy
- Luke Dowdney is named a Young Global Leader by the Schwab Foundation
- Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles visit Fight for Peace in Rio de Janeiro
- There is an average of 140 young people attending the Rio de Janeiro Academy every day. In London the number is even higher with an average of 156 participating in activities every day
- Over 2000 young people are directly supported at the two Academies
- Fight for Peace boxer Roberto becomes Brazilian national boxing champion for the first time
- Fight for Peace presents its experiences in two international UN conferences: The 5th World Urban Forum and the 12th International Conference for the Prevention of Crime and Violence
- Fight for Peace begins its Maré United project by opening two satellite academies in the favela
communities of Bento Ribeiro Dantas and Marcílio Dias - 1301 young people are benefitted by the projects & activities at the Rio de Janeiro Academy
- The FFP Global Alumni Programme is launched, offering organisations around the world access to the principles and methodology of Fight for Peace
- The Muay Thai competitor Thomas Kamara becomes Southern England champion. He is the first young person from the London Academy to win a title
- Following Roberto Custódio’s example, boxer Thayson de Souza becomes Brazilian National Champion
- Thayson de Souza is invited to form part of the Brazilian national team.
- Members of the Rio de Janeiro Academy take part in the GREAT Sports Day event, where Prince Harry awards two young capoeira participants with medals.
- Roberto Custódio becomes the Brazilian national boxing champion for the second time and participates in the London Olympic Games as a reserve.