Follow-Up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace

A/RES/66/116View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 15 Culture of peace, published in 2012.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 2012–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/321

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/79/321	Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace	3,175	93%Compare
2024	A/RES/78/277	Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace	3,077	84%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/296	Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace	3,163	66%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/68	Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace	2,827	84%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/25	Follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace	2,430	91%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

10 reports · 2014–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2024	A/79/573	Promotion of a culture of peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/296
2022	A/77/614	Promotion of a culture of peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/68
2021	A/76/357	Promotion of a culture of peace and interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/25
2020	A/75/233	Promotion of a culture of peace and interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/21
2019	A/74/476	Promotion of a culture of peace and interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/126

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Education for Peace Funds Peace Peacebuilding Public Information

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 Peace2 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;

Invites the entities of the United Nations system, within their existing mandates, to integrate, as appropriate, the action areas of the Programme of Action in their programmes of activities, focusing on promoting a culture of peace and non-violence at the regional, national and international levels;

Commends the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, for which the promotion of a culture of peace is the expression of its fundamental mandate, for further strengthening the activities it has undertaken to promote 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 Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-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;

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;

Stresses the role of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in mobilizing all relevant stakeholders within and outside the United Nations system in support of cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and a culture of peace, and invites the Organization to continue to enhance communication and outreach, including through the culture of peace website,⁹ in order to promote the objectives of the newly adopted programme of action for a culture of peace and non-violence at the regional, national and global levels;

⁹www3.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 General Assembly resolution 55/282 of 7 September 2001;

Invites the Secretary-General, within existing resources, in consultation with the Member States and taking into account the observations of civil society organizations, to explore mechanisms and strategies for the implementation of the Declaration and Programme of Action and to initiate outreach efforts to increase global 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-seventh 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-seventh session the item entitled “Culture of peace”.

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