(4) analyze existing policies, employ successful, 
field-tested programs, and develop new approaches 
for dealing with the tools of violence, including 
handguns, especially among youth; 
(5) analyze existing policies and develop new 
policies to address violence against animals; 
(6) develop new and expand current effective 
programs that relate to the societal challenges of 
school violence, gangs, racial or ethnic violence, vio-
lence against gays and lesbians, and police-commu-
nity relations disputes; 
(7) make policy recommendations to the Attor-
ney General regarding civil rights and labor law; 
(8) assist in the establishment and funding of 
community-based violence prevention programs, in-
cluding violence prevention counseling and peer me-
diation in schools and unarmed civilian peacekeeping 
at a local level; 
(9) counsel and advocate on behalf of women 
victimized by violence; 
(10) provide for public education programs and 
counseling strategies concerning hate crimes; 
(11) promote racial, religious, and ethnic toler-
ance; and 
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(12) finance local community initiatives that 
can draw on neighborhood resources to create peace 
projects that facilitate the development of conflict 
resolution at a national level and thereby inform and 
inspire national policy. 
(c) INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Sec-
retary 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-esca-
lation of unarmed and armed international conflict; 
(2) contribute to and participate in the develop-
ment of training of all United States personnel who 
administer post-conflict reconstruction and demobili-
zation in war-torn societies; 
(3) sponsor country and regional conflict pre-
vention and dispute resolution initiatives, create spe-
cial task forces, and draw on local, regional, and na-
tional 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, during conflict 
and post conflict; 
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(5) provide for exchanges between the United 
States and other nations of individuals who endeavor 
to develop domestic and international peace-based 
initiatives; 
(6) encourage the development of international 
sister city programs, pairing United States cities 
with cities around the globe for artistic, cultural, 
economic, educational, and faith-based exchanges; 
(7) establish and administer a budget des-
ignated for the training and deployment of unarmed 
civilian peacekeepers to participate in multinational 
nonviolent peacekeeping forces. Such training and 
deployment may be conducted by civilian, govern-
mental, or multilateral organizations; 
(8) 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; 
(9) facilitate the development of peace summits 
at which parties to a conflict may gather under care-
fully prepared conditions to promote nonviolent com-
munication and mutually beneficial solutions; 
(10) submit to the President recommendations 
for reductions in weapons of mass destruction, and 
make annual reports to the President on the sale of 
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arms from the United States to other nations, with 
analysis of the impact of such sales on the defense 
of the United States and how such sales affect 
peace; 
(11) in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
develop strategies for sustainability and management 
of the distribution of international funds; 
(12) advise the United States Ambassador to 
the United Nations on matters pertaining to the 
United Nations Security Council; and 
(13) support the implementation of inter-
national peacebuilding strategies through a balanced 
use of defense, diplomacy, and development. 
(d) HUMAN SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Sec-
retary shall address and offer nonviolent conflict resolu-
tion strategies and 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 environmental concerns. 
(e) MEDIA-RELATED RESPONSIBILITIES.—Respect-
ing the first amendment of the Constitution of the United 
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States and the requirement for free and independent 
media, the Secretary shall— 
(1) seek assistance in the design and implemen-
tation of nonviolent policies from media profes-
sionals; 
(2) study the role of the media in the escalation 
and de-escalation of conflict at domestic and inter-
national levels and make findings public; and 
(3) make recommendations to professional 
media organizations in order to provide opportuni-
ties to increase media awareness of peace-building 
initiatives. 
(f) EDUCATIONAL
RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Sec-
retary shall— 
(1) develop a peace education curriculum, which 
shall include studies of— 
(A) the civil rights movement in the United 
States and throughout the world, with special 
emphasis on how individual endeavor and in-
volvement have contributed to advancements in 
peace and justice; and 
(B) peace agreements and circumstances 
in which peaceful intervention has worked to 
stop conflict; 
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