CISM Honors and Awards
| CISM ORDER OF MERIT | ||
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 Grand Cordon' |  Commander |  Grand Officer |
 Officer | Grand Knight |  Knight |
| CISM STAR OF SPORTS MERIT | |||
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 Double Gold Star |  Gold Star |  Silver Star |  Bronze Star |
| Jurisdiction | International |
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| Abbreviation | IMSC/CISM |
| Founded | 18 February 1948 |
| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
| President | Colonel Nilton Gomes Rolim |
| Official website | |
| www | |
| Motto: Friendship through Sport | |
The International Military Sports Council (IMSC) or Conseil International du Sport Militaire (CISM), is an international sports association, established in 1948 and headquartered in Brussels. It is the world's second-largest multi-discipline sports organisation, after the International Olympic Committee, holding more than 20 competitions annually. [1] Under its auspices, soldiers who may previously have met on the battlefield compete on the sports playing field. CISM organises various sporting events, including the Military World Games and World Military Championships, for the armed forces of 140 member countries. [2] [3] The aim of CISM is to promote sport activity and physical education between armed forces as a means to foster world peace. The motto of CISM is "Friendship through Sport" and is based on three pillars of sport, education and solidarity. [4]
Since 21 April 2018, the president of CISM has been Colonel Nilton Gomes Rolim Filho of Brazil.
In 1919, in the aftermath of the First World War, the Inter-Allied Games were organised by General John Pershing's Allied Forces Sports Council, bringing together 1500 athletes representing 18 nations, to compete in 24 sports. The event was held in Joinville-le-Pont in France. [5] [6]
In May 1946, after the Second World War, the Allied Forces Sports Council was revived by Colonel Henri Debrus and Olympic pentathlete Major Raoul Mollet, and over the weekend of 7-8 September that year, the second Inter-Allied Games took place in Berlin, at the Olympiastadion, venue of the 1936 Olympic Games. [5] The event was also known as the Allied Track and Field Championships, following a similar event in 1945. Twelve nations were due to be represented: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Great Britain, Poland, Greece, Luxembourg, Holland, Norway, the Soviet Union, the United States and hosts Germany, [7] while reports say that only seven did. [8] [9] [6]
Amid some rancour, the Allied Forces Sports Council was extinguished in 1947. [8]
A few months later, taking up they had left off with the Allied Forces Sports Council, Colonel Debrus and Major Mollet founded the CISM, on 18 February 1948. The founding members were Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In 1950, Argentina and Egypt became members. In 1951, the United States joined. In 1952, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Syria became members, followed two years later by Brazil. Canada came on board in 1985. Then in 1991, with the end of the Cold War, the rival Warsaw Pact organisation Allied Armies Sports Committee (SKDA) merged with CISM, heralding the accession of 31 new member countries from the Pact and others associated with the Soviet Bloc. [10] This rapid progress led to recognition by international institutions including the IOC. Prior to 1995, CISM organised 15 to 20 world championships each year. Since 1995, CISM has organised every four years the Military World Games, a multi-sport event. [11]
The CISM of the Americas Continent is a subordinate organisation that consists of 19 member nations: Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Uruguay and Venezuela. There are two liaison offices known as the North American Liaison Office (NALO) and the South American Liaison Office (SALO). The CISM of the Americas Vice President, (Army) Colonel Walter Jander served as one of the four CISM Vice Presidents (2015 - 2019). [8]
| CISM ORDER OF MERIT | ||
|---|---|---|
| Grand Cordon' | Commander | Grand Officer |
| Officer | Grand Knight | Knight |
| CISM STAR OF SPORTS MERIT | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Double Gold Star | Gold Star | Silver Star | Bronze Star |
The CISM Solidarity programme is intended as a means to promote sustainable development to strengthen less privileged CISM member countries, in order to create equal opportunities for all CISM nations to participate in CISM events.[ citation needed ]
Developed some decades ago, Solidarity is one of the two pillars that guide CISM's activities, and inspired the Olympic solidarity model. CISM's solidarity programme has many components, ranging from organising technical clinics in less privileged countries and transporting athletes to championships, to shipping sports equipment to disadvantaged regions. Member countries may send or invite coaches, based either on CISM membership and "Friendship through Sport" or often through bilateral contracts.[ citation needed ]
The establishment of Regional Development Centres (RDC) is a major objective of the CISM support policy. The first step in this direction was taken in 2006 when the CISM African Development Centre (CAD) was founded in Nairobi, Kenya. A further Regional Development Centre was established in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[ citation needed ]
A General Assembly, on which all member nations are represented, is the supreme authority of CISM.[ citation needed ]
| S. No. | Name | Country | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Colonel Henri Debrus |  France | 1948 — 1953 |
| 2. | Major Arne W. Thorburn |  Sweden | 1953 — 1956 |
| 3. | Colonel Henri Debrus | France | 1956 — 1961 |
| 4. | Brigadier-General Royal Hatch |  United States | 1961 — 1967 |
| 5. | Air Commander M. M. Piracha |  Pakistan | 1967 — 1968 |
| 6. | Admiral Fazio Casari |  Italy | 1968 — 1969 |
| 7. | Major-General Kenneth G. Wickham | United States | 1969 — 1970 |
| 8. | Counter Admiral Aldo Massarini | Italy | 1970 — 1979 |
| 9. | Divisional-General Mohammed Saleh Mokaddem |  Tunisia | 1979 — 1986 |
| 10. | Divisional-General Jean Duguet | France | 1986 — 1994 |
| 11. | General Arthur Zechner |  Austria | 1994 — 1998 |
| 12. | Major-General Dr. Gianni Gola | Italy | 1998 — 2010 |
| 13. | Colonel Hamad Kalkaba Malboum |  Cameroon | 2010 — 2014 |
| 14. | Colonel Abdulhakim Al-Shino |  Bahrain | 2014 — 2018 |
| 15. | Colonel Hervé Piccirillo | France | 2018 — 2022 |
| 16. | Colonel Nilton Gomes Rolim Filho |  Brazil | 2022 — present |
| Designation | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| President | Colonel Nilton Gomes Rolim Filho | Brazil |
| Vice-Presidents | Brigadier General Rashid Mahboob Al-Dosari (Asia) |  Qatar |
| Colonel Dirk Schwede (Europe) |  Germany | |
| Major General Maikano Abdullahi (Africa) |  Nigeria | |
| Colonel Delio Rosario Colon |  Dominican Republic | |
| Secretary General | Colonel Roberto Recchia | Italy |
| Treasurer General | Colonel Sven Serré |  Belgium |
| Member | General Djabou M’hammed Abdelhak |  Algeria |
| Colonel Sega Sissoko |  Mali | |
| Brigadier-General Elijah Ndegwa Gatere |  Kenya | |
| Air Vice Marshal Simon Nyowani |  Zimbabwe | |
| Colonel Steven Rosso | United States | |
| Colonel Nathalie Birgentzlen |  Canada | |
| Colonel Luiz Fernando Toledo Leal | Brazil | |
| Colonel Yijang Wang |  China | |
| Brigadier General Zakaryia Kanat |  Syria | |
| Colonel Moon-Hak Yoon |  South Korea | |
| Major General Oleg Botsman |  Russia | |
| Major Jan-Henrik Back | Sweden | |
| Colonel Jose Carlos Garcia-Verdugo |  Spain | |
| Lieutenant Colonel Jure Velepec |  Slovenia |
The Military World Games are a multisports event organised every four years since 1995. They are held one year before the year the Olympic Games are organised.
In the year of the Military World Games (from 1995, every four years), championship shall be the same of the World Games tournament.
CISM annually organises over twenty Military World Championships for different sports in which all member nations can take part. They also organize continental and regional competitions and every four years the Military World Games are held. This is a multisports event which is organized by CISM in conjunction with CISM member nations. The sports include: basketball; bowling, boxing, cross country running, cycling, golf, judo, lifesaving, marathon, modern pentathlon, orienteering, parachuting, rugby football, sailing, shooting, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming, taekwondo, track and field, triathlon, volleyball, beach volleyball, and wrestling. [12]
CISM strives to organise international symposia at least every year to study various aspects of physical education and sport within member states' armed forces. In 2008, was the symposium about "How to emphasize the importance of sports within the Armed Forces at national and international level" took place in Sofia, Bulgaria 24-25 September 2008. A symposium on "Sports science: fundamental tool of modern sports management" in Prague 18-23 September 2009 was attended by 70 participants from 27 countries, and saw the relaunch of the CISM Academy.[ citation needed ]
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In October 2007, during the 4th Military World Games in India, CISM organised in partnership with the IOC, the Indian Olympic Association and the Organising Committee of the World Games, an International Forum on Sport for Peace, with the theme: "Sport, a concrete fundamental tool to promote Peace".[ citation needed ]
This year, on 20 March, in the framework of the Winter Games, CISM organized in close cooperation with IOC, the International Forum on the subject Sport for Peace – "From positive initiatives to systemic integrated programs".[ citation needed ]
Forum participants signed a declaration "CISM Aosta Call-to-Action 2010 on Sport for Peace" summarising the common wishes and asking all institutions to formally establish a bilateral and mutual agreement in order to undertake concrete programmes aimed at sharing good practices and effectively implementing Sport for Peace programmes.[ citation needed ]
Canada was the first country to include women’s categories while hosting Taekwondo in 1993, had the first female sport committee president (sailing) and also hosted the 1st Women in CISM Week in Kingston in 2008. [4]
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