History
The German Social education worker Dietmar Doering founded A.G.S.E.P. He was a national coach for the table tennis team of Sri Lanka at that time. Against the background of a long lasting civil war, A.G.S.E.P. defines since 1989 integrative sport events as peaceful intergroup sport encounters that popularise social values such as intercultural togetherness, respect, courage, commitment, and appreciation through active participation and exchange. Integrative sport events are planned, organised, implemented and staged in co-operation with the three major ethnic groups on the island, the Sinhalese, the Tamils and the Muslims.
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