Implementation of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 15 Culture of peace, published in 2011.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Declarations Education for Peace Non-Violence Peace Programmes of Action

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Reiterates that the objective of the effective implementation of the Programme of Action on a Culture of PeaceError: Reference source not found is to strengthen further the global movement for a culture of peace following the observance of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World, 2001–2010, and calls upon all concerned to renew their attention to this objective;

Invites Member States to continue to place greater emphasis on and expand their activities promoting a culture of peace at the national, regional and international levels and to ensure that peace and non-violence are fostered at all levels;

Encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, for which the promotion of a culture of peace is the expression of its fundamental mandate, to strengthen further the activities it has undertaken for promoting a culture of peace, including the promotion of peace education and the dissemination of the Declaration on a Culture of Peace1 and the Programme of Action and related materials in various languages across the world;

Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to consider the feasibility of creating a special fund under the Organization to cater to the country-specific projects for the effective promotion of a culture of peace;

Commends the relevant United Nations bodies, in particular the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the University for Peace, for their activities in further promoting a culture of peace and non-violence, including the promotion of peace education and activities related to specific areas identified in the Programme of Action, and encourages them to continue and further strengthen and expand their efforts;

Encourages the Peacebuilding Commission to continue to promote peacebuilding activities and advance a culture of peace and non-violence in post-conflict peacebuilding efforts at the country level;

Urges the appropriate authorities to provide age-appropriate education, in children’s schools, that includes lessons in mutual understanding, tolerance, active citizenship, human rights and the promotion of a culture of peace;

Encourages the involvement of media, especially the mass media, in promoting a culture of peace and non-violence, with particular regard to children and young people;

Commends civil society, non-governmental organizations and young people for their activities in further promoting a culture of peace and non-violence, including through their campaign to raise awareness on a culture of peace, and takes note that one thousand and fifty-four organizations from the civil societies of more than one hundred countries have observed the International Decade, as called for in paragraph 13 of resolution 64/80;

Encourages civil society and non-governmental organizations to further strengthen their efforts to promote a culture of peace, inter alia, by adopting their own programme of activities to complement the initiatives of Member States, the organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, in line with the Declaration and Programme of Action;

Welcomes the efforts made by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue to enhance communication and outreach, including through the culture of peace website,⁹ along with its efforts to coordinate and implement its activities to promote the objectives of the International Decade at the regional and global levels;

⁹http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/.

Invites Member States, all parts of the United Nations system and civil society organizations, including the International Day of Peace Non-Governmental-Organization Committee at the United Nations, to accord increasing attention to their observance of the International Day of Peace on 21 September each year as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, in accordance with resolution 55/282 of 7 September 2001;

Requests the Secretary-General to explore enhancing mechanisms for the implementation of the Declaration and Programme of Action;

Invites relevant United Nations bodies to continue their efforts in increasing awareness of the Programme of Action and its eight areas of action aimed at their implementation;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a report on actions undertaken to implement the present resolution and on heightened activities by the United Nations and its affiliated agencies to implement the Programme of Action and to promote a culture of peace and non-violence;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-sixth session the item entitled “Culture of peace”.

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