A/RES/57/6 Peace, and encourages them to continue and further strengthen and expand their efforts; 5. Encourages the appropriate authorities to provide education, in children’s schools, that includes lessons in mutual understanding, tolerance, active citizenship, human rights and the promotion of a culture of peace; 6. Encourages civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to strengthen its efforts in furtherance of the objectives of the Decade, inter alia, by adopting its own programme of activities to complement the initiatives of Member States, the organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations; 7. Encourages the involvement of the mass media in education for a culture of peace and non-violence, with particular regard to children and young people, including through the planned expansion of the Culture of Peace News Network as a global network of Internet sites in many languages; 8. Welcomes the efforts made by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue the communication and networking arrangements established during the International Year for providing an instant update of developments related to the observance of the Decade; 9. Invites Member States to observe 21 September each year as the International Day of Peace, as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 55/282 of 7 September 2001; 10. Also invites Member States as well as civil society, including nongovernmental organizations, to provide information to the Secretary-General on the observance of the Decade and the activities undertaken to promote a culture of peace and non-violence; 11. Emphasizes the significance of the plenary meetings on the item planned for its sixtieth session, 7 and in that regard encourages participation at a high level, and decides to consider, at an appropriate time, the possibility of organizing those meetings as close as possible to the general debate; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution; 13. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Culture of peace”. 43rd plenary meeting 4 November 2002 _______________ 7 See resolution 55/47, para. 13. 3