PROMOTING A CULTURE OF PEACE.(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

From: New Zealand International Review | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: Salas, Dame Laurie | Copyright information

Dame Laurie Salas outlines the UNESCO-sponsored efforts to encourage a peaceful and non-violent world for children.

Addressing a meeting to mark United Nations Day on 25 October last year, Major-General Piers Reid noted that 2000 had been designated the UN Year for the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence. He focused on peacekeeping as one aspect of the work done by the United Nations in helping to create a just, legal and more equal world in which peace can flourish. Contr...

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