Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is an organization that organizes the Olympic Games, an international sporting event which happens every four years. The IOC has had a long-standing goal of using the Olympic Games to encourage universal understanding, peace, unity and friendship between people from different countries and cultures around the world. The IOC sees the Olympic Games as a way of bringing people from all different backgrounds together in order to promote peace, friendship and understanding.