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Culture of Peace

A/RES/51/101No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 110bHuman rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1997–1998
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/52/13
  • 1998A/RES/52/13Culture of peaceLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1997A/RES/51/101Culture of peace

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
CultureHuman Rights EducationPeace

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the transdisciplinary project entitled "Towards a culture of peace";
2
Expresses deep concern about the proliferation of violence and conflicts of a diverse nature in various parts of the world;
3
Calls for the promotion of a culture of peace based on the principles established in the Charter of the United Nations, respect for human rights, democracy, tolerance, dialogue, cultural diversity and reconciliation, and efforts to promote development, education for peace, the free flow of information and the wider participation of women, as an integral approach to prevent violence and conflicts and to contribute to the creation of conditions for peace and its consolidation;
4
Welcomes with satisfaction the memorandum of understanding between the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, signed in Paris on 19 October 1995;
5
Welcomes the establishment of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Prize on the Research for Peace by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twenty-fifth session, the biennial prize awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the teaching of human rights and the annual prize for peace education;
6
Requests the Secretary-General, in coordination with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution and on the progress of educational activities within the framework of the transdisciplinary project entitled "Towards a culture of peace", including the preparation of elements for a draft provisional declaration and programme of action on a culture of peace;
7
Decides to continue its consideration of the question of a culture of peace at its fifty-second session.

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