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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/25
19 November 1998
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 31
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.25)]
53/25.
International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the
Children of the World (2001–2010)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 52/15 of 20 November 1997 and Economic and Social Council resolution
1997/47 of 22 July 1997 proclaiming the year 2000 as the International Year for the Culture of Peace,1
as well as its resolution 52/13 of 20 November 1997 on a culture of peace,
Taking into account Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/54 of 17 April 1998 entitled
"Towards a culture of peace",2
Recalling the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights
concerning the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995–2004),
Taking into account the project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization entitled "Towards a culture of peace",
Aware that the task of the United Nations to save future generations from the scourge of war requires
transformation towards a culture of peace, which consists of values, attitudes and behaviours that reflect
and inspire social interaction and sharing based on the principles of freedom, justice and democracy, all
human rights, tolerance and solidarity, that reject violence and endeavour to prevent conflicts by tackling
1
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 1 (E/1997/97).
2
Ibid., 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II, sect. A.
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