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(a) Reinvigorate national efforts and international cooperation to promote the goals of education for
all with a view to achieving human, social and economic development and for promoting a culture of
peace;
(b) Ensure that children, from an early age, benefit from education on the values, attitudes, modes
of behaviour and ways of life to enable them to resolve any dispute peacefully and in a spirit of respect
for human dignity and of tolerance and non-discrimination;
(c) Involve children in activities designed to instill in them the values and goals of a culture of
peace;
(d) Ensure equality of access to education for women, especially girls;
(e) Encourage revision of educational curricula, including textbooks, bearing in mind the 1995
Declaration and Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy3
for which technical cooperation should be provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization upon request;
(f) Encourage and strengthen efforts by actors as identified in the Declaration, in particular the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, aimed at developing values and skills
conducive to a culture of peace, including education and training in promoting dialogue and consensusbuilding;
(g) Strengthen the ongoing efforts of the relevant entities of the United Nations system aimed at
training and education, where appropriate, in the areas of conflict prevention and crisis management,
peaceful settlement of disputes, as well as in post-conflict peace-building;
(h) Expand initiatives to promote a culture of peace undertaken by institutions of higher education
in various parts of the world, including the United Nations University, the University for Peace and the
project for twinning universities and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Chairs Programme.
10. Actions to promote sustainable economic and social development:
(a) Undertake comprehensive actions on the basis of appropriate strategies and agreed targets to
eradicate poverty through national and international efforts, including through international cooperation;
(b) Strengthen the national capacity for implementation of policies and programmes designed to
reduce economic and social inequalities within nations through, inter alia, international cooperation;
(c) Promote effective and equitable development-oriented and durable solutions to the external debt
and debt-servicing problems of developing countries through, inter alia, debt relief;
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Twenty-eighth
Session, Paris, 25 October–16 November 1995, vol. 1: Resolutions, resolution 5.4, annexes.
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