A/RES/36/67
30 November 1981
International Year of Peace and International Day of Peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling that the promotion of peace, both at an international
and a national level, is among the main purposes of the United
Nations, in conformity with its Charter,
Reaffirming that, as set forth in the preamble of the Charter
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the
minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed, that a
peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements
of Governments would not be a peace which could secure the
unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world,
and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail,
upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind,
Further recalling that, on the basis of similar considerations,
the General Assembly established the United Nations University in
l972 and, more specifically, the University for Peace in l980, and
entrusted other organs and organizations of the United Nations
system with the promotion of peace, mainly through education in all
its aspects,
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Noting with appreciation the initiative taken by the
International Association of University Presidents at its Sixth
Triennial Meeting, held at San Jose, Costa Rica, in July 1981, to
propose the declaration of a peace year, a peace month and a peace
day,
Acknowledging the conclusions of the said Meeting that it would
be appropriate to devote a specific time to concentrate the efforts
of the United Nations and its Member States, as well as of the whole
of mankind, to promoting the ideals of peace and to giving positive
evidence of their commitment to peace in all viable ways,
Considering that, through the declaration and proper
celebration of an international peace year and an international day
of peace, it would be possible to contribute to strengthening such
ideals of peace and to alleviating the tensions and causes of
conflict, both within and among nations and peoples,
1. Invites the Economic and Social Council to consider, at
its first regular session of 1982, the possibility of declaring an
International Year of Peace at the first practicable opportunity,
taking into account the urgency and special nature of such an
observance as well as the guidelines for international years and
anniversaries adopted by the General Assembly in its decision 35/424
of 5 December 1980, and to submit its recommendations to the
Assembly at its thirty-seventh session on the basis of appropriate
arrangements for the timing, organization and financing of the Year,
2. Declares that the third Tuesday of September, the
opening day of the regular session of the General Assembly, shall be
officially dedicated and observed as the International Day of Peace
and shall be devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals
of peace both within and among all nations and peoples;
3. Invites all Member States, organs and organizations of
the United Nations system, regional organizations, non-governmental
organizations, peoples and individuals to commemorate in an
appropriate manner the International Day of Peace, especially
through all means of education, and to co-operate with the United
Nations in the observance of that Day.