Former Vice President Al Gore, , former Secretary of State Colin Powell and thousands of teenagers from around the world will come to Connecticut next summer for the fifth World Scholar-Athlete Games and the first World Youth Peace Summit.
The athletic competition and summit are run by the Institute of International Sport, a Rhode Island-based nonprofit group. Its executive director, West Hartford resident Dan Doyle, spoke at the Capitol Tuesday about the event, which will mark the institute's 25th anniversary.
In May, will be a peace walk that will start in West Hartford and end in downtown Hartford. The Rev. Desmond Tutu will bless the walk, one of thousands like it that will be held across the world on either May 21 and May 22. The peace walk in Connecticut will be on one of those days but the exact date has not yet been set.