5 March 2025, New York (UN) – Securing the Legacy: Debriefing from Paris 2024 for Future major Sporting Events

The UN Headquarters in New York hosted a new conference devoted to sharing good practices and lessons learned from the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralymics on how to improve safety, security and service for major sporting events. The event was hosted by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism and co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of France to the UN. Another outcome was to foster a culture of security to protect sport from the scourge of terrorism and leveraging sport values for strengthening youth resiliency against violent ideologies.

Very interesting insights were provided by the representative of the 2022 World Cup organised in Qatar who shared vivid insight what the organisation of such a major sport event incorporates regarding modern security issues, including cyber attacks and terrorist threats from air and land. EMCA was represented with the Director for Development and Sustainability Bojan Mijatović.