Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Xi Jinping and Global Times: Communism is Blind Worship of Western Values and Views

Editor, DL Mullan
China / Communism / Western Values 
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Did I read that correctly? I had to do a double-take.

At first, I happened upon a Breitbart article: "China: Celebrity Vegetarianism Is ‘Blind Worship of the West’" and thought there must be a mistake. I clicked on the link and read the Global Times, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), news media source. Indeed, I read the Chinese Communist Party's cognitive dissonance for myself. 

There the article was: "Celebrities’ promotion of vegetarian lifestyle meets with criticism, mockery online." 

Dear Leader, oh wait, that's North Korea's Western Leader. I'm sorry, all you Western Values and Views guys hiding under the skirt of German philosopher, Karl Marx, look the same, sound the same, and act the same: like loons. 

Karl Marx and Frederich Engels worked together on this philosophy to end capitalism by inserting a revolutionary based system of compliance, torture, and slavery onto its native populace, save but the top one percent of the one percent, who live with the finer things in life including steaks and champagne. With the rest of the one percent being the other one percent's lackeys, who use militaristic, economic, and social pressure on the rest of the population. That leaves the poor 99% to live under extremism and poverty.

Karl Mar's communist philosophy is Western Values and Views. 

Karl Marx (May 5, 1818–March 14, 1883), a Prussian political economist, journalist, and activist, and author of the seminal works, "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital," influenced generations of political leaders and socioeconomic thinkers. Also known as the Father of Communism, Marx's ideas gave rise to furious, bloody revolutions, ushered in the toppling of centuries-old governments, and serve as the foundation for political systems that still rule over more than 20 percent of the world's population—or one in five people on the planet.

The problem in question is when two Chinese actresses espoused the tenets of veganism/vegetarianism:

"Zhang Jingchu and Tao Hong, both well-known Chinese actresses, appeared in a 45-minute documentary, during which they promoted the idea that eating vegetables is healthy while eating meat is cruel and unnecessary from a nutritional perspective.

  • "If you eat that piece of beef, it's like driving a car for 60 kilometers and you can feed 30 vegetarians on the same piece of land, while you can only feed one carnivore," the documentary said, connecting vegetarianism with reducing carbon emissions.
  • Some extreme environmentalists in the West have a problem with people eating meat in China, even claiming that every time a Chinese person eats a piece of meat, "a puff of smoke rises from the Amazon forest."
  • Shen Yi, a deputy director of the Fudan University Cyberspace Research Center, told the Global Times on Wednesday that stars' calls for a vegetarian lifestyle represent "blind worship" of Western values and views.

    "They were just deluded by some heresy. Some Western countries do not want to give up their luxurious lifestyles, driving cars with large engines and eating beef, but they ask developing countries to change to let them maintain their lifestyles," Shen said."

Did I get these quotes correct? 

You do realize that what your actresses are regurgitating is Globalist ideas to control the world's food supply, don't you? That Globalism is worldwide communism cloaked as socialism? 

China, especially your leader, Xi Jinping, has been a proponent of Globalism. Globalism where corporations are merged with government, controlled by government, in order to control nine billion people under its Iron Curtain.

Yet, the Chinese Communist Party is criticizing these actresses for the communist ideology the CCP inflicts not only on its own people but the entire world with the help of Western Elites like the attendees of DAVOS, Bilderberg, and other exclusive meetings. 

I have shown that Karl Marx was a Westerner. His Communist Manifesto and other illegitimate writings are heavily sampled in the Globalist institutions of the United Nations, G7, European Uniion, Multinational MegaCorporations, and their subsidiaries, think tanks, and service organizations. Yet, the CCP is now bulking on the Western Views and Values it spreads across the world. 

The Chinese Communist Party just by its very name is a Western institution. The hypocrisy and hubris of the CCP are astounding. The CCP has murdered how many tens of millions of Chinese? The CCP has enslaved how many of the Uyghurs people? That does not count how many aborted female fetuses there are when those pregnancies were terminated by mandate of the CCP's One Child Policy.

Should I say more? 

The Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) was the Western overthrow of the East. The CCP destroyed Chinese history, culture, high arts, education, religion, and over five thousand years of China. All for Western Values and Views of a failed philosophy that enslaves people, not liberates them. 

If that is not blind worship of the West, then I don't know what is. 

Maybe it is time to give up communism for common sense. 


P.S. Xi Jinping, you are not using the West; the Western Elites are using you and have been for decades.  


Sources: Thoughtco, NPR, SciencesPo, and the links in the article. 

 

Monday, August 17, 2020

The United Nations is Responsible for Censorship, Cancel Culture

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
United Nations / Cancel Culture / Censorship
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Wonder where social justice, censorship, and cancel culture originated from since these inflammatory and civil rights violations are not original to America? 

Then look no further than the United Nations. On their site for: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, anyone can read how the United Nations views human rights.

Article 29, Section 3

These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Anyone who is tied into the United Nations take over of the world via our governments through treaties and accords, private corporations using censorship, banning, and deplatforming of people and businesses, and training the citizenry from elementary school to believe in social justice is apart of the New World Order, planetary government, one world government scheme. 

Did you vote in the United Nations? Did you vote in Smart Technology? Strong Cities Initiatives? Or, even CFL light bulbs? 

All these different types of fads are driven by the United Nations' Agenda 21, 2030, Megaregions 2050.

Your elected officials are pushing you into a one-way street straight into world government. Check out HR 1111. If you speak up, corporations and governments are using Article 29, Section 3 to delete you from your digital existence. 

In the case of Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer, these entities without due process of law have banned her from social media, fundraising, even Uber, Lyft, food ordering and more. 

Section 230 exists because internet providers and platforms are considered utilities and therefore not allowed to restrict access to people based on any type of political, religious, or other affiliation. 

47 U.S. Code § 230 - Protection for private blocking
and screening of offensive material
(a) FindingsThe Congress finds the following:
(3) The Internet and other interactive computer services offer a forum for a true diversity of political discourse, unique opportunities for cultural development, and myriad avenues for intellectual activity.

(b) Policy It is the policy of the United States—
(1) to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2) to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;

(c) Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
(1) Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2) Civil liabilityNo provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]
So where is censorship based on political views legal again? Nowhere. Where is deplatforming based on political views legal again? Nowhere. 

The social media platforms Americans paid for through development with their tax monies have taken censorship on themselves to promote and protect the United Nations' one world government power grab.  

It appears through their own words that the United Nations believes their mission, vision, and goals are above any single national law. Anyone who sides with the United Nations appears to be able to be above the law as well (e.g., Big Tech, Big Pharma, and the Military Industrial Complex of private contractors). 

Big Tech Censors
Alex Jones
Banned.video
Laura Loomer
Proud Boys
Roger Stone

Do we see a pattern here? 

Big Pharma Censors
Frontline Doctors
Dr. Simone Gold (fired from her job)
Anti-vaxxers

So anyone going against deceptive WHO recommendations is gone? 

And the Military Industrial Complex of private contractors are nothing more than mercenaries online as bots, spies, and bullies trying to keep the house of cards from falling down around them. Their no-bid contracts are gold. Taxpayer funded lottery for a small group of people feeding off Americans and people around the world like parasites. 

If you cross these terrorists, you end up arrested (Millie Weaver, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Julian Assange), or dead (Seth Rich, and anyone who has ever done business with the Clintons is seems like). 

The middle pyramid piece to total control and surveillance of the whole of humanity appears to be: the United Nations. Under the United Nations entities and corporations are allowed to lie under oath in front of Congress, cheat to create monopolies, and steal from the American people through information gathering, contracts, and tax breaks. 

As we know from the information sourced in the documentary Shadow Gate, by journalist Millie Weaver, that these private corporations steal our information and then create profiles in order to incite civil unrest. Private corporations, nonprofits, and others have also pushed their way into the classroom under Agenda 21's Common Core to indoctrinate generations of children into the cult of social justice that allows for this censorship and cancel culture to continue. 

If you do not agree with the United Nations, then you are control-alt-deleted from cyberspace, families, and friendships. 

This problem needs to be removed from our culture. American society is about free speech, freedom of expression, and fair play. The United Nations has reversed hundreds of years of the Enlightenment and taken humanity back to the Dark Ages. 

America needs to disengage itself from the United Nations. 

Stand up for freedom, the free market, and free ideas: Cancel our membership to the corrupt United Nations. 

Maybe then Americans can find the justice needed to combat these enemies foreign and domestic. 





Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Forbes Loss is Our Gain: On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Climate Change Hoax / Climate Alarmism
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The letter was originally published by Forbes Magazine but the truth will not uphold their climate deception so the site took the article down. People have already known about this hoax, now that knowledge is being substantiated by an insider. The UN's IPCC is a fraud. 

The IPCC does not take into account the sun and other factors correctly:



CLIMATE FORCING | Our Future is Cold

Yet the push for the Green New Deal like the Democrat Party released as their infrastructure proposal this week will harm the environmental and our economy in perpetuity.
"BIOFUELS, BIOMASS and WINDFARMS are destroying wildlife habitats at great speed, yet they do not produce any environmental benefits at all. They are remedies that are worse than the illness and should be abandoned immediately. 
If the planet is at risk, it is from the corrupt alliance of “green” charlatans, subsidy-sucking speculators, and politicians. Together, they have created a monster which is causing more devastation worldwide than there has been in 5,000 years of civilisation."

The World Council for Nature
So why is this Green New Deal thrown in the face of Americans and the world for the past four years? Money. Follow the money and see who is profiting off the deception. "Scientific institutions including WHO and IPCC have undermined their credibility through the repeated politicization of science. Their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and serious reform." So from the same person comes his apology... and to buy his new book: Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.

Here is an excerpt of his apology you can find the rest at Environmental Progress:
On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. 
I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. 
But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public....
Here are some facts few people know:
-Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction” 
-The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”
-Climate change is not making natural disasters worse
-Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003
-The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska
-The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California
-Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s 
-Netherlands became rich not poor while adapting to life below sea level 
-We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter
-Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change
-Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
-Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture
...I know that the above facts will sound like “climate denialism” to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism... 
So move over Greta Thunberg, the truth of the matter is coming to light. Go back to school and learn real knowledge. Propaganda has ruined your life.

Or should more educated realists do what the LaRouche PAC did in October of 2019 to Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? They pulled off a real life theatrical production of Johnathon Swift's A Modest Proposal.


We need to eat the babies' says woman to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Brilliant. 
The best political stunt ever. 

It shows how much that environmentalism, climate change, and the depopulation agenda work together to deceive the public. These philosophies are farces that the public should ignore and stop funding. The organizations pushing this agenda should be investigated for fraud as well.

Are you ready to be free of the climate change hoax?


Source: Environmental Progress, Breitbart, Suspicious Observers, The World Council for Nature, All Thats Interesting,  


Sunday, February 23, 2020

Washington Post's Azari: I Would Not Trust the Elite to Choose a Dog Catcher

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Elites / Oligarchs / Elections
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The elite political class from monarchies to dictatorships spanning five thousand years, what hasn't the world's elite done for humanity? Conquest, war, hunger, and death. The elite political class preys on people's fears in order to manipulate and control their everyday lives like psychopaths.

So when the mainstream media praises the elite political class for anything, shouldn't we question if that publication should be even take seriously? The original headline to the Washington Post read: Give the Elites a Bigger Say in Choosing the President. Now the headline reads: It's time to switch to preference primaries. 

Entitled elite political class has given humanity endless wars to profit from while pushing the failures of socialism/communism for societal control like they have for any other religion:
  • World War I
  •  Bolshevik Revolution
  • World War II
  • National Socialist German Workers' Party
  • Cold War Communism vs the Free World 
  •  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Berlin Wall, East and West Germany 
  • Vietnam
  • Korea, North verses South
  • Communist China
  • United Nations' Agenda 21, 2030, Megaregions 2050
That is but a snapshot of elite damage caused because their way was more important to them than one human life. When the entitled elite political class can make money off human suffering, they are happy to provide the false flags, lies through media, deception via politicians to make their dreams of death and destruction come true.

The Elite's top organizations
I would never choose someone from the entitled class of pompous egomaniacs to choose my local dog catcher let alone President of the United States. 

“And for the international order that we have worked for generations to build, ordinary men and women are too small minded to govern their own affairs. Order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all powerful sovereign.”
Obsessed with power and control of someone else... and ordinary people are small minded? Gimme a break, losers.

That mindset is how they think of everyone who isn't them: peasants, unworthy, useless eaters.

Why would anyone want that mental illness to be in charge of anything or anyone?

We have new entitled pozers of the rich and famous believing their celebrity is more important than being a productive member of our society. If you are on a television show or in a movie, somehow your voice carries more weight. If you recorded an album, somehow your voice carries more weight. If you play a child's sport as a profession, somehow your voice carries more weight.

We have presidential candidates who have spent $400 million on their egos, I  mean: campaigns, but have not once used their money to help someone in need. $64 billion could erase debts of the disabled and their caregivers. 

That's the issue. We have elites who want to tell the rest of us what to do and how high to jump, but at the end of the day, the elites themselves harbor no personal responsibility to their own edicts.

So what are our elections about? Elevating the elite's favorite candidate to make the masses feel all the ill in the world is their own fault? Shouldn't we be blaming the top 1% of the 1% instead? 

There is a lot of talking the talk, which is meaningless. We need politicians who walk the walk. How are you productive in our society? What have you done besides move our industry and manufacturing to China and India? Replaced our workers with foreigners for cost cutting? 

Is that really walking the walk of American ideals and exceptionalism? 

Or, is it another example of how the elite political class feels they are entitled to selling us out to line their own hedge funds?



Thursday, November 7, 2019

Treason: Military Dismantling and Gun Confiscation Only the Beginning of HR 1111 Peacebuilding for United Nations Absorption of the United States

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Treason / House of Representatives
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Want to know what the overthrow of the United States looks like?

Read HR 1111.




H.R. 1111 (115th): Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2017

115th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1111
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


February 16, 2017
(for herself, Ms. Moore, Ms. Norton, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Conyers, Ms. Maxine Waters of California, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Cárdenas, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mrs. Davis of California, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Rush, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Soto, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Payne, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Polis, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mrs. Watson Coleman, and Ms. Kaptur) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform


A BILL
To establish a Department of Peacebuilding, and for other purposes.


1.
Short title; table of contents
(a)
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2017.
(b)
Table of contents
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Title I—ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACEBUILDING
Sec. 101. Establishment of Department of Peacebuilding.
Sec. 102. Responsibilities and powers.
Sec. 103. Principal officers.
Sec. 104. Office of Peace Education and Training.
Sec. 105. Office of Domestic Peacebuilding Activities.
Sec. 106. Office of International Peacebuilding Activities.
Sec. 107. Office of Technology for Peace.
Sec. 108. Office of Arms Control and Disarmament.
Sec. 109. Office of Peacebuilding Information and Research.
Sec. 110. Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights.
Sec. 111. Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace.
Sec. 112. Federal Interagency Committee on Peace.
Sec. 113. Staff.
Sec. 114. Consultation required.
Sec. 115. Collaboration.
Title II—OTHER MATTERS
Sec. 201. Legislative recommendations of the Secretary.
Sec. 202. Peace Days.
Sec. 203. Definitions.
Sec. 204. Authorization of appropriations.
2.
Findings
Congress finds the following:
(1)
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously declared the independence of the 13 colonies, and the achievement of peace was recognized as one of the highest duties of the new organization of free and independent States by declaring, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..
(2)
The Constitution of the United States of America, in its preamble, further sets forth the insurance of the cause of peace in stating, We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.
(3)
The United States has been at peace for only 21 entire years since its birth during the Revolutionary War. During the course of the 20th century, more than 100,000,000 people perished in wars. Many of our citizens today have never known a peaceful year in their lifetimes.
(4)
Thus far in the 21st century, nearly 1,000,000 people have died in conflict and war. In 2015 alone, 65.3 million people, or one person in 113, were displaced from their homes by conflict and persecution. The United States has been at war over 15 years, with more than 6,800 members of the Armed Forces and hundreds of thousands of civilians estimated to have been killed in the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and territories occupied by ISIL.
(5)
Every year 300,000 people are killed by gun violence around the world. In the United States, 100,000 people are shot each year in murders, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, accidents, and police actions. Approximately 20 veterans a day commit suicide nationwide. Over 33,000 people die each year of gunshot wounds, 12,000 of whom are murdered. Every day, 50 children are shot, eight of whom are fatally shot, and each gun injury and fatality results in trauma to family members and loved ones. More people have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in United States history.
(6)
A World Health Organization report estimates that interpersonal violence within the United States costs approximately $300 billion annually, not including war-related costs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that an average of 34 people age 10 to 24 were murdered each day in the United States in 2014. The Pew Charitable Trust calculates that child abuse and neglect in the United States cost $103.8 billion in 2007.
(7)
On April 4, 2012, the Institute for Economics and Peace released the United States Peace Index, which assesses peacefulness at the State and city levels and analyzes the costs associated with violence and the socio-economic measures associated with peace. While violence within the United States has declined since the year 2015, violence and violence containment still cost the average taxpayer $6,417 per year. The total cost of violence to the United States—including lost productivity from violence—is conservatively calculated to be over $460 billion.
(8)
A 2015 study by the Institute for Economics and Peace reports conservative estimates that 12 percent of the gross domestic product of the United States was spent on containing violence. The study included government, corporate, and individual expenditures, regardless of whether the expenditure was related to international affairs such as offshore military activities, or domestic spending such as dealing with crime and the consequences of crime.
(9)
Violence prevention is cost effective. For every dollar spent on violence prevention and peacebuilding, thousands of lives and dollars are saved. Research indicates that investing early to prevent conflicts from escalating into violent crises is, on average, 60 times more cost effective than intervening after violence erupts. The philosophy and techniques of nonviolence and the science of peacebuilding provide tools and techniques that can be applied not only at the levels of individual and community growth, but also within the Federal Government and at national and international levels.
(10)
The United Nations recognizes that promotion of peace is vital for the full enjoyment of all human rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace mandates that preservation of the right to peace is a fundamental obligation of each country. In 1999, the United Nations adopted a Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, stating that a culture of peace is an integral approach to preventing violence and violent conflicts, an alternative to the culture of war and violence, and is based on education for peace, the promotion of sustainable economic and social development, respect for human rights, equality between women and men, democratic participation, tolerance, and the free flow of information and disarmament. The United Nations declared the years 2001 through 2010 an International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, and the United Nations supports a culture of peace. In 2015, the UN adopted 17 sustainable development goals, including promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies.
(11)
Peacebuilding is defined by the United Nations as a range of measures targeted to reduce the risk of lapsing or relapsing into conflict by strengthening national capacities at all levels for conflict management and to lay the foundations for sustainable peace and development. Peacebuilding is built upon research into the root causes of violence in the United States and the world, through promotion and promulgation of effective policies and programs that ameliorate those root causes of violence, and through providing all citizens, organizations, and governmental bodies with opportunities to learn about and practice the essential tools of nonviolent conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
(12)
In 2000, the Earth Charter Commission released the Earth Charter, an international declaration of fundamental values and principles created to build a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society. The preamble of the Earth Charter provides, To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace.. Peacebuilding is working together with all countries to protect both life and land and hold the Earth in balance.
I
ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACE­BUILDING
101.
Establishment of Department of Peacebuilding
(a)
Establishment
There is hereby established a Department of Peacebuilding, which shall—
(1)
be within the executive branch of the Federal Government; and
(2)
be dedicated to peacebuilding, peacemaking, and the study and promotion of conditions conducive to both domestic and international peace and a culture of peace.
(b)
Secretary of Peacebuilding
There shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Peacebuilding, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(c)
Mission
The Department shall—
(1)
cultivate peace and peacebuilding as a strategic national policy objective;
(2)
reduce and prevent violence in the United States and internationally through peacebuilding and effective nonviolent conflict resolution;
(3)
strengthen nonmilitary means of peacemaking;
(4)
take a proactive, strategic approach in the development of field-tested, best practices and policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and structured mediation of conflict;
(5)
address matters both domestic and international in scope;
(6)
provide an institutional platform for the growing wealth of expertise in peacebuilding to dramatically reduce the national and global epidemic of violence;
(7)
support local communities in finding, funding, replicating, and expanding programs to reduce and prevent violence;
(8)
invest in nongovernmental organizations that have implemented successful initiatives to reduce and prevent violence, both internationally and domestically; and
(9)
consult with other Federal agencies to apply and practice the science of peacebuilding in their respective fields of responsibility.
102.
Responsibilities and powers
(a)
In general
The Secretary shall—
(1)
work proactively and interactively with each branch of the Federal Government on all policy matters relating to conditions of peace;
(2)
call on the experience and expertise of individuals and seek participation in the development of policy from private, public, and nongovernmental organizations;
(3)
monitor and analyze causative principles of conflict and make policy recommendations for developing and maintaining peaceful conduct;
(4)
research effective violence reduction programs and promote and promulgate such programs within Government and society; and
(5)
consult with private, public, and nongovernmental organizations to develop a metric model that provides the means to measure and report progress toward peace in the United States to the President, Congress, and the public, and issue reports on such progress annually.
(b)
Domestic responsibilities
The Secretary shall collaborate with governmental and nongovernmental organizations and individuals to promote personal and community security and peace by—
(1)
developing new policies and supporting existing policies that effectively address personal and family violence, including suicide, domestic violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, and mistreatment of the elderly;
(2)
creating new policies and programs and expanding existing policies and programs that effectively reduce drug and alcohol abuse;
(3)
developing new policies and programs and expanding existing policies and programs that effectively address crime, punishment, and rehabilitation, including—
(A)
working to reduce prison recidivism rates;
(B)
supporting the implementation of nonviolent conflict resolution education and training for victims, perpetrators, and those who work with them; and
(C)
supporting effective police and community relations;
(4)
analyzing existing policies, employing successful, field-tested programs, and developing new approaches for dealing with the tools of violence, including handguns and assault weapons, especially among youth;
(5)
developing new and expanding effective programs that address and ameliorate societal challenges such as school violence, gangs, hate crimes, economic injustice, human trafficking, racial or ethnic violence, violence against LGBTQ+ individuals, and police-community relations disputes;
(6)
making policy recommendations to the Attorney General regarding civil rights and labor law;
(7)
assisting in the establishment and funding of community-based violence prevention programs, including violence prevention counseling and peer mediation in schools and unarmed civilian peacekeeping at a local level;
(8)
providing counseling and advocacy on behalf of individuals victimized by violence;
(9)
providing for public education programs and counseling strategies that promote tolerance and respect for the diversity of all individuals in the United States with regard to race, religion, creed, gender and gender identification, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, and other perceived differences; and
(10)
supporting local community initiatives that draw on neighborhood resources to create peace projects that facilitate the development of conflict resolution and healing of societal wounds such as patriarchy, racism, war, manifest destiny, and economic injustice to thereby inform and inspire national policy.
(c)
International responsibilities
The Secretary shall—
(1)
advise the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State on matters relating to national security, including the protection of human rights and the prevention of, amelioration of, and de-escalation of unarmed and armed international conflict;
(2)
contribute to and participate in the development of training of all United States personnel who administer post-conflict reconstruction and demobilization in war-torn societies;
(3)
sponsor national and regional conflict-prevention and dispute-resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local, regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas;
(4)
counsel and advocate on behalf of women victimized by violence, including rape, situations leading up to conflict, conflicts, and post-conflict situations;
(5)
counsel and advocate on behalf of victims of human trafficking both domestically and internationally and work to end the trafficking of human beings;
(6)
provide for exchanges between the United States and other countries that endeavor to develop domestic and international peace-based initiatives;
(7)
encourage the development of international sister city programs, pairing United States cities with cities around the world for artistic, cultural, economic, educational, and faith-based exchanges;
(8)
establish and administer a budget designated for the training and deployment of unarmed civilian peacekeepers to participate in multinational nonviolent peacekeeping forces that may be conducted by civilian, governmental, or multilateral organizations;
(9)
jointly with the Secretary of the Treasury, strengthen peace enforcement through hiring and training monitors and investigators to help with the enforcement of international arms embargoes;
(10)
in consultation with the Secretary of State, bring together all stakeholders who are impacted by a conflict by facilitating peace summits where such stakeholders may gather under carefully prepared conditions to promote nonviolent communication and mutually beneficial solutions;
(11)
submit to the President recommendations for reductions in weapons of mass destruction, and make annual reports to the President on the sale of arms from the United States to other countries, with an analysis of the impact of such sales on the defense of the United States and how such sales affect peace;
(12)
in consultation with the Secretary of State, develop strategies for sustainability and management of the distribution of international funds;
(13)
advise the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations on matters pertaining to the United Nations Security Council; and
(14)
support the implementation of international peacebuilding strategies through a balanced use of peacebuilding, diplomacy, development, and defense.
(d)
Membership of the Secretary of Peacebuilding on the National Security Council
Section 101(a) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3021(a)) is amended—
(1)
in paragraph (5), by striking and;
(2)
by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (7); and
(3)
by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:


(6)
the Secretary of Peacebuilding; and
.
(e)
Human security responsibilities
The Secretary shall address and offer nonviolent conflict resolution strategies and suggest resources for unarmed civilian peacekeepers to the appropriate relevant parties on issues of human security if such security is threatened by conflict, whether such conflict is geographic, religious, ethnic, racial, or class-based in its origin, derives from economic concerns, or is initiated through disputes concerning scarcity of natural resources (such as water and energy resources), food, trade, or climate and environmental concerns.
(f)
Media-Related responsibilities
Respecting the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America and the requirement for free and independent media, the Secretary shall—
(1)
seek assistance in the design and implementation of nonviolent policies from media professionals;
(2)
study the role of the media in the escalation and de-escalation of conflict at domestic and international levels, including the role of fear-inducing and hate-inducing speech and actions, and making the findings of such study public; and
(3)
make recommendations to professional media organizations in order to provide opportunities to increase media awareness of peacebuilding initiatives.
(g)
Educational responsibilities
The Secretary shall—
(1)
with the support of, and in consultation with, the United States Institute of Peace, develop a peace education curriculum that includes studies of—
(A)
the civil rights movement in the United States and throughout the world, with special emphasis on the role of nonviolence and how individual endeavor and involvement have contributed to advancements in peace and justice;
(B)
peace agreements and circumstances in which peaceful intervention has worked to stop conflict; and
(C)
the patriarchal structure of society and the inherent violence of such structure in the shaping of relationships and institutions;
(2)
in consultation with the Secretary of Education—
(A)
commission the development of such curriculum and make such curriculum available to local school districts to enable the use of peace education objectives at pre-kindergarten schools, elementary schools, and secondary schools in the United States;
(B)
support in early childhood, pre-kindergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education a well-resourced, balanced education that includes math, science, English, history, ethnic studies, social studies, health, physical education, foreign languages, the arts, and music that will prepare students for success in a globally interconnected world; and
(C)
offer incentives in the form of grants and training to encourage the development of State peace curricula and assist schools in applying for such grants and training;
(3)
work with educators to equip students to become skilled in achieving peace through reflection, and facilitate instruction in the ways of peaceful conflict resolution;
(4)
ensure that schools are nonviolence zones that provide a peaceful educational environment;
(5)
create school and community cultures where students and staff do not feel threatened and are free from bullying and harassment by developing and implementing curricula in nonviolent conflict resolution education for teachers, students, parents, the school community, and the community at large;
(6)
maintain a public website to solicit and receive ideas for the development of peace from the wealth of the politically, socially, and culturally diverse public;
(7)
proactively engage the critical thinking capabilities of students and teachers of pre-kindergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education through the Internet and other media and issue periodic reports concerning any submissions from such students and teachers;
(8)
create and establish a Peace Academy that shall—
(A)
be modeled after the military service academies; and
(B)
provide a 4-year course of instruction in peace education, after which graduates will be required to serve 5 years in public service in programs dedicated to domestic or international nonviolent conflict resolution; and
(9)
provide grants for peace studies departments in institutions of higher education throughout the United States.
103.
Principal officers
(a)
Under Secretary of Peacebuilding
The President shall appoint an Under Secretary of Peacebuilding in the Department, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. During the absence or disability of the Secretary, or in the event of a vacancy in the office of the Secretary, the Under Secretary shall act as Secretary. The Secretary shall designate the order in which other officials of the Department shall act and perform the functions of the Secretary during the absence or disability of both the Secretary and Under Secretary or in the event of vacancies in both offices.
(b)
Additional positions
(1)
In general
The President shall appoint in the Department, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate—
(A)
an Assistant Secretary for Peace Education and Training;
(B)
an Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peacebuilding Activities;
(C)
an Assistant Secretary for International Peacebuilding Activities;
(D)
an Assistant Secretary for Technology for Peace;
(E)
an Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament;
(F)
an Assistant Secretary for Peacebuilding Information and Research;
(G)
an Assistant Secretary for Human and Economic Rights; and
(H)
a General Counsel.
(2)
Establishment of Inspector General of the Department of Peacebuilding
Section 12 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—
(A)
in paragraph (1), by inserting Peacebuilding, after Homeland Security,; and
(B)
in paragraph (2), by inserting Peacebuilding, after Homeland Security,.
(3)
Additional officers
The President shall appoint 4 additional officers in the Department, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The officers appointed under this paragraph shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall prescribe, including—
(A)
congressional relations functions;
(B)
public information functions, including providing, through the use of the latest technologies, useful information about peace and the work of the Department;
(C)
management and budget functions; and
(D)
planning, evaluation, and policy development functions, including development of policies to promote the efficient and coordinated administration of the Department and its programs and encourage improvements in conflict resolution and violence prevention.
(4)
Description of functions
In any case in which the President submits the name of an individual to the Senate for confirmation as an officer of the Department under this subsection, the President shall state the particular functions such individual will exercise upon taking office.
(c)
Authority of Secretary
Each officer described in this section shall report directly to the Secretary and shall, in addition to any functions vested in or required to be delegated to such officer, perform such additional functions as the Secretary may prescribe.
104.
Office of Peace Education and Training
(a)
In general
There shall be in the Department an Office of Peace Education and Training, the head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Peace Education and Training. The Assistant Secretary for Peace Education and Training shall carry out those functions of the Department relating to the creation, encouragement, and impact of peace education and training at the pre-kindergarten, elementary, secondary, university, and postgraduate levels, and disseminate applicable policies and research in consultation with entities of the Department of Health and Human Services, including—
(1)
the Administration for Children and Families;
(2)
the Administration on Aging;
(3)
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
(4)
the National Institutes of Health.
(b)
Peace curriculum
The Assistant Secretary of Peace Education and Training, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, the United States Institute of Peace, nongovernmental organizations, public institutions, peace and conflict studies programs of institutions of higher education, and Federal agencies that provide effective peace training materials and curricula, shall support the development and dissemination of effective peace curricula and supporting materials for distribution to the State educational agency in each State and territory of the United States. Each peace curriculum shall include—
(1)
building communicative peace skills and nonviolent conflict resolution skills;
(2)
teaching and fostering compassion, empathy, tolerance, respect, inclusion, and forgiveness; and
(3)
promoting other objectives to increase the knowledge of peace processes.
(c)
Grants
The Assistant Secretary of Peace Education and Training shall—
(1)
provide peace education grants to institutions of higher education for the creation and expansion of peace studies departments and the education and training of teachers in peace studies; and
(2)
establish a grant program to be known as the Community Peace Block Grant program under which the Secretary shall make grants to nonprofit organizations and nongovernmental organizations for the purposes of developing innovative neighborhood programs for nonviolent conflict resolution and creating local peacebuilding initiatives.
105.
Office of Domestic Peacebuilding Activities
(a)
In general
There shall be in the Department an Office of Domestic Peacebuilding Activities, the head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peacebuilding Activities. The Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peacebuilding Activities shall carry out those functions in the Department affecting domestic peace activities, including the development of policies that increase awareness about intervention and counseling on domestic violence and conflict.
(b)
Responsibilities
The Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peacebuilding Activities shall—
(1)
develop policy and disseminate best practices from the field for the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse;
(2)
develop community-based strategies for celebrating diversity and promoting tolerance;
(3)
develop new policies and build upon existing proven programs to prevent the school-to-prison pipeline by promoting restorative and conflict resolution practices at pre-kindergarten, elementary, secondary, university, and post graduate levels and in police academies, with funding for teacher training in nonviolence, restorative practices, and conflict resolution;
(4)
develop new policies and build on existing proven programs—
(A)
to assist in the prevention of crime, including the development of community policing strategies, mindfulness and conflict de-escalation training, and other peaceful settlement skills among police and other public safety officers;
(B)
to assist in the re-entry into the community by individuals who have been incarcerated, including training in anger management, conflict resolution, peacebuilding skills, life skills, and educational and job skills;
(C)
to assist in creating strong and healthy families, including supporting mental health services, domestic violence prevention, gang prevention, anti-bullying programs, substance abuse prevention, and the development of parenting skills;
(D)
to provide restorative justice programs at all levels of the criminal justice system that bring together offenders, victims, and community members in an effort to repair the damage caused by criminal activity through accountability and rehabilitation;
(E)
to provide for training and deployment into neighborhoods of nonmilitary domestic conflict prevention and peacemaking personnel, including violence interrupters and civilian community peacekeepers;
(F)
to implement community-based policing to break down barriers between law enforcement officers and the people such officers serve; and
(G)
to encourage and facilitate formation of locally run and administered citizen’s boards to recommend any appropriate training as needed for working compassionately and effectively with local populations and to review and hold accountable actions of all local police departments in the United States;
(5)
promote informal and cultural exchanges between individuals and groups of proximate neighborhoods and regions to encourage understanding and acceptance; and
(6)
disseminate applicable policies and research in consultation with appropriate entities of—
(A)
the Department of Justice;
(B)
the Department of Health and Human Services;
(C)
the Department of State; and
(D)
the Department of Education.
(c)
Grants
The Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peacebuilding Activities shall create a grant program to be known as the Cultural Diplomacy for Peace grant program under which the Secretary shall make grants to pre-kindergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, and nongovernmental organizations for the purpose of developing domestic cultural exchanges, including exchanges relating to the arts and sports, that promote diplomacy and cultural understanding between neighborhoods and members of such neighborhoods.
106.
Office of International Peacebuilding Activities
(a)
In general
There shall be in the Department an Office of International Peacebuilding Activities, the head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for International Peacebuilding Activities. The Assistant Secretary for International Peacebuilding Activities shall carry out those functions in the Department affecting international peace activities.
(b)
Responsibilities
The Assistant Secretary for International Peacebuilding Activities shall—
(1)
develop new programs and promote existing proven programs to—
(A)
provide for the training and deployment of graduates of the Peace Academy established under section 102(g) and other nonmilitary conflict prevention and peacemaking personnel;
(B)
support national and regional conflict-prevention and dispute-resolution initiatives in countries experiencing social, political, or economic strife;
(C)
provide training for the administration of post-conflict reconstruction and demobilization in war-torn societies;
(D)
address root causes of violence;
(E)
eradicate extreme hunger and poverty;
(F)
achieve universal primary education; and
(G)
empower women and girls;
(2)
support the creation of a multinational nonviolent peace force;
(3)
provide for exchanges between individuals of the United States and other countries that are endeavoring to develop domestic and international peace-based initiatives; and
(4)
disseminate applicable policies and research in consultation with appropriate entities of—
(A)
the Department of State;
(B)
the Department of Labor;
(C)
the Peace Corps; and
(D)
the United States Institute of Peace.
(c)
Grants
The Assistant Secretary for International Peacebuilding Activities shall create a grant program to be known as the International Cultural Diplomacy for Peace grant program under which the Secretary shall make grants to pre-kindergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary schools, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, and nongovernmental organizations for the purpose of developing international cultural exchanges, including exchanges related to the arts and sports, that promote diplomacy and cultural understanding between the United States and other countries.
107.
Office of Technology for Peace
(a)
In general
There shall be in the Department an Office of Technology for Peace, the head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Technology for Peace. The Assistant Secretary for Technology for Peace shall carry out those functions in the Department affecting the awareness, study, and impact of developing new technologies on the creation and maintenance of domestic and international peace, and disseminate applicable policies and research in consultation with appropriate entities of the Department of State.
(b)
Grants
The Assistant Secretary for Technology for Peace shall make grants for the research and development of technologies in transportation, communications, agriculture, and energy that—
(1)
are nonviolent in application; and
(2)
encourage the conservation and sustainability of natural resources in order to prevent future conflicts regarding scarce resources.
108.
Office of Arms Control and Disarmament
(a)
In general
There shall be in the Department an Office of Arms Control and Disarmament, the head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament. The Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament shall carry out those functions in the Department affecting arms control programs and arms limitation agreements.
(b)
Responsibilities
The Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament shall—
(1)
advise the Secretary on interagency discussions and international negotiations, including discussions involving the Secretary of State, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Secretary of Defense, regarding the reduction and elimination of weapons of mass destruction throughout the world, including the dismantling of such weapons and the safe and secure storage of materials related thereto;
(2)
assist countries, international agencies, and nongovernmental organizations in assessing the locations of the buildup of nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction;
(3)
develop nonviolent strategies to deter testing or use of offensive or defensive nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, whether based on land, air, sea, or in space;
(4)
serve as a depository for copies of all contracts, agreements, and treaties that address the reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, or the protection of space from militarization;
(5)
provide technical support and legal assistance for the implementation of such contracts, agreements, and treaties;
(6)
disseminate applicable policies and research in consultation with appropriate entities of the Department of State and the Department of Commerce; and
(7)
address and support nuclear waste cleanup at Superfund Sites of former and present military bases in the United States and abroad.
109.
Office of Peacebuilding Information and Research
(a)
In general
There shall be in the Department an Office of Peacebuilding Information and Research, the head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Peacebuilding Information and Research. The Assistant Secretary for Peacebuilding Information and Research shall carry out those functions in the Department affecting research and analysis relating to creating, initiating, and modeling approaches to peaceful coexistence and nonviolent conflict resolution.
(b)
Responsibilities
The Assistant Secretary for Peacebuilding Information and Research shall—
(1)
commission or compile studies on the impact of war and other types of violence, especially on the physical and mental condition of children (using the 10-point anti-war agenda in the United Nations Children’s Fund report, State of the World’s Children 1996, as a guide) that shall include the study of the effect of war on the environment and public health;
(2)
compile information on effective community peacebuilding activities and disseminate such information to local governments and nongovernmental organizations in the United States and abroad;
(3)
commission or compile research on the effect of violence in the media and make such reports available to Congress annually;
(4)
commission or compile research on the effects of gun violence in the United States, and make such reports available to Congress annually;
(5)
publish a monthly journal of the activities of the Department and encourage scholarly participation;
(6)
sponsor conferences throughout the United States to create awareness of the work of the Department; and
(7)
where applicable, work to carry out the responsibilities under this subsection in consultation with the United States Institute of Peace and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations, including—
(A)
the Department of Health and Human Services;
(B)
the Department of Justice; and
(C)
the Department of State.
110.
Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights
(a)
In general
There shall be in the Department an Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights, the head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Economic Rights. The Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Economic Rights shall carry out those functions in the Department that support the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948.
(b)
Responsibilities
The Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Economic Rights shall—
(1)
assist the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, in furthering the incorporation of the principles of human rights, as enunciated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, into all agreements between the United States and other countries to help reduce the causes of violence;
(2)
consult with the Secretary of State, the Atrocities Prevention Board of the White House, and other similarly concerned governmental and nongovernmental organizations to gather information on and document domestic and international human rights abuses, including genocide, torture, human trafficking, child soldiers, and child labor, and recommend to the Secretary nonviolent responses to promote awareness, understanding, and correction of abuses;
(3)
make such information available to other governmental and nongovernmental organizations in order to facilitate nonviolent conflict resolution;
(4)
provide trained observers to work with nongovernmental organizations for purposes of creating a climate conducive to the respect for human rights;
(5)
conduct economic analyses of the scarcity of human and natural resources as a source of conflict and make recommendations to the Secretary for nonviolent prevention of such scarcity, nonviolent intervention in case of such scarcity, and the development of programs to assist people facing such scarcity, whether due to armed conflict, misdistribution of resources, or natural causes;
(6)
assist the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, in developing strategies regarding the sustainability and the management of the distribution of funds from international agencies, the conditions regarding the receipt of such funds, and the impact of those conditions on the peace and stability of the recipient countries;
(7)
assist the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Labor, in developing strategies to promote full compliance with domestic and international labor rights law;
(8)
conduct policy analysis to ensure that the international development investments of the United States positively impact the peace and stability of the recipient country; and
(9)
disseminate policies and research in consultation with appropriate entities of the Department of State.
111.
Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace
(a)
In general
There shall be in the Department an advisory committee known as the Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace (in this section referred to as the Council). The Council shall provide assistance and make recommendations to the President and the Secretary concerning intergovernmental policies relating to peace and nonviolent conflict resolution.
(b)
Responsibilities
The Council shall—
(1)
provide a forum for representatives of the Federal Government and of State and local governments to discuss peace issues;
(2)
promote better intergovernmental relations and offer professional mediation services to ameliorate and resolve intergovernmental and intragovernmental conflict as needed, including elimination of inflammatory rhetoric; and
(3)
submit biennially, or more frequently if determined necessary by the Council, a report to the President, the Secretary, and Congress reviewing the impact of Federal peace activities on the Federal Government and on State and local governments.
(c)
Membership
The Secretary shall appoint the members of the Council.
112.
Federal Interagency Committee on Peace
(a)
Establishment
There is established a Federal Interagency Committee on Peace (in this section referred to as the Committee). The Committee shall—
(1)
assist the Secretary in providing a mechanism to assure that the procedures and actions of the Department and other Federal agencies are fully coordinated; and
(2)
study and make recommendations for assuring effective coordination of Federal programs, policies, and administrative practices affecting peace.
(b)
Membership
The Secretary shall appoint the members of the Committee.
113.
Staff
The Secretary may appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the Secretary and the Department. Except as otherwise provided by law, such employees shall be appointed in accordance with applicable laws and the compensation of such employees fixed in accordance with title 5, United States Code.
114.
Consultation required
(a)
Consultation in cases of conflict and violence prevention
(1)
In general
In any case in which a conflict between the United States and any other government or entity is foreseeable, imminent, or occurring, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State shall consult with the Secretary of Peacebuilding concerning violence prevention, nonviolent means of conflict resolution, and peacebuilding.
(2)
Diplomatic initiatives
In any case in which a conflict described in paragraph (1) is ongoing or recently concluded, the Secretary shall conduct an independent study of diplomatic initiatives undertaken by the United States and other parties to such conflict.
(3)
Initiative assessment
In any case in which a conflict described in paragraph (1) has recently concluded, the Secretary shall assess the effectiveness of any initiatives in ending such conflict.
(4)
Consultation process
The Secretary shall establish a formal process of consultation in a timely manner with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council—
(A)
prior to the initiation of any armed conflict between the United States and any other country; and
(B)
for any matter involving the use of Department of Defense personnel within the United States.
(b)
Consultation in drafting treaties and agreements
The head of each appropriate Federal agency shall consult with the Secretary in drafting treaties and peace agreements.
115.
Collaboration
The Secretary shall, for the greatest effectiveness in promoting peace and peacebuilding, collaborate with all related programs in all Federal agencies.
II
OTHER MATTERS
201.
Legislative recommendations of the Secretary
Not later than 1 year after the date of the appointment of the first Secretary, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to Congress proposed legislation containing any necessary and appropriate amendments to the laws of the United States to carry out the purposes of this Act.
202.
Peace Days
The Secretary shall encourage citizens to observe and celebrate the blessings of peace and endeavor to create peace on Peace Days. Such days shall include discussions of the professional activities and the achievements in the lives of peacemakers.
203.
Definitions
In this Act:
(1)
Department
The term Department means the Department of Peacebuilding established under section 101(a).
(2)
ESEA terms
The terms elementary school, secondary school, and State educational agency have the meaning given those terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
(3)
Federal agency
The term Federal agency has the meaning given the term agency in section 551(1) of title 5, United States Code.
(4)
Institution of higher education
The term institution of higher education has the meaning given that term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
(5)
Nonprofit organization
The term nonprofit organization means an entity that—
(A)
is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and
(B)
is exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code.
(6)
Secretary
The term Secretary means the Secretary of Peacebuilding appointed under section 101(b).
204.
Authorization of appropriations
(a)
In general
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act such sums as may be necessary.
(b)
Limitation on use of funds
Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (a), at least 85 percent shall be used for domestic peace programs, including administrative costs associated with such programs.


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