University for Peace

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 27 University for Peace, published in 2010.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 1987–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/84

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/84	University for Peace	1,206	79%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/73	University for Peace	1,128	83%Compare
2018	A/RES/73/90	University for Peace	1,044	86%Compare
2015	A/RES/70/79	University for Peace	932	59%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/111	University for Peace	761	65%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2015–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2024	A/79/272	University for Peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/73
2021	A/76/259	University for Peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/90
2018	A/73/313	University for Peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/79
2015	A/70/288	University for Peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/83

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Capacity Building Cooperation Between Organizations Dispute Settlement Educational Institutions Educational Programmes International Security Peace Research Peacebuilding Peacekeeping Operations Preventive Diplomacy Social Research Training Programmes Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 61/108, outlining the extraordinary progress made by the University for Peace in building exemplary programmes on critical subjects related to peace and security;³

³A/64/281.

Requests the Secretary-General, in view of the important mandate given to the University and its potential role in developing new concepts and approaches to security through education, training and research in order to respond effectively to emerging threats to peace, to consider ways to further strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and the University;

Also requests the Secretary-General to continue using the services of the University as part of his conflict-resolution and peacebuilding efforts through the training of staff, especially those concerned with peacekeeping and peacebuilding, in order to strengthen their capacities in this area, and in the promotion of the Declaration and the Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace;⁴

⁴Resolutions 53/243 A and B.

Invites the University to further strengthen and broaden the outreach of its programmes and activities for cooperation with and capacity-building for Member States in the areas of conflict prevention, conflict resolution and peacebuilding;

Invites Member States that have not already done so to accede to the International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace,⁵ thereby demonstrating their support for an educational institution devoted to the promotion of a universal culture of peace;

⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1223, No. 19735.

Requests the Secretary-General to consider either reviving the existing Trust Fund for Peace or alternatively establishing a new trust fund for peace to facilitate receipt of voluntary contributions for the University;

Encourages Member States, intergovernmental bodies, non-governmental organizations and interested individuals to contribute to the programmes, the trust fund, when established for the University, or the core budget of the University to enable it to continue to perform its valuable work;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-seventh session the item entitled “University for Peace”, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at that session a report on the work of the University.

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