International Year for the Culture of Peace
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The International Year for the Culture of Peace (2000) was a designated year by the United Nations, with the aim of celebrating and encouraging a culture of peace. The lead organization for the International Year was UNESCO and in particular the UNESCO Taskforce on the International Year for the Culture of Peace. The notion of a culture of peace has perhaps been most comprehensively formulated in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 53/243 of September, 1999, under the title 'Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace'. The International Year encompassed a range of activities to publicize and support the notion of a culture of peace, including the Manifesto 2000 Project, involving the collection of some 50 million signatures in support of a culture of peace, and the Culture of Peace News Network (CPNN), a plan to develop locally-based websites reporting news in support of a culture of peace. Opinion is divided as to how effective the International Year was. The work of supporting and encouraging a culture of peace continues through the United Nations International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World.
Page, James S. (2001) 'The International Year for the Culture of Peace: Was It Worthwhile?'. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 4(3): 348-351; available on-line at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00002945/.
