A/RES/52/13 Page 2 1. Takes note of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,1 as transmitted by the Secretary-General and submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 51/101, which is set within the framework of United Nations actions for peace-building, including the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004, and the United Nations Year for Tolerance, as well as the programmes of action of recent United Nations world conferences; 2. Calls for the promotion of a culture of peace based on the principles established in the Charter of the United Nations and on respect for human rights, democracy and tolerance, the promotion of development, education for peace, the free flow of information and the wider participation of women as an integral approach to preventing violence and conflicts, and efforts aimed at the creation of conditions for peace and its consolidation; 3. Notes that the report includes: (a) Elements for a draft United Nations declaration on a culture of peace, including the historical basis, the meaning and significance of a culture of peace and the major fields and main actors for its promotion; (b) Elements for a programme of action, including the relevant aims as well as the strategies and actions needed to implement each of those aims; (c) A presentation of the progress of projects within the framework of the transdisciplinary project entitled "Towards a culture of peace"; 4. Requests the Secretary-General, in coordination with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and taking into account the debate in the General Assembly, the specific suggestions of Member States and the comments, if any, of member States in the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twenty-ninth session, to submit a consolidated report containing a draft declaration and programme of action on a culture of peace to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session; 5. peace". Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session an item entitled "Culture of 50th plenary meeting 20 November 1997