addressing the root sources and issues of conflict in 
troubled areas; 
(4) develop violence prevention, amelioration 
and violence de-escalation training for the general 
public 
to 
provide 
tools 
and 
educate 
about 
peacebuilding skills and to promote sustainable 
peace, 
peacebuilding 
buy-in 
and 
peacebuilding 
awareness; 
(5) counsel and advocate on behalf of women 
victimized by violence, including rape, situations 
leading up to conflict, conflicts, and post-conflict sit-
uations; 
(6) counsel and advocate on behalf of victims of 
human trafficking both domestically and internation-
ally and work to end the trafficking of human 
beings; 
(7) provide for exchanges between the United 
States and other countries that endeavor to develop 
domestic and international peace-based initiatives; 
(8) 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; 
(9) establish and administer a budget des-
ignated for the training and deployment of unarmed 
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civilian peacekeepers to participate in multinational 
nonviolent peacekeeping forces that may be con-
ducted by civilian, governmental, or multilateral or-
ganizations; 
(10) 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; 
(11) 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 and to prevent future; 
(12) submit to the President recommendations 
for reductions and elimination of weapons of mass 
destruction, and make annual reports to the Presi-
dent 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, how 
such sales affect peace and security, and how reduc-
tion or cessation of such sales affect peace and secu-
rity; 
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(13) in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
develop strategies for sustainability and management 
of the distribution of international funds; 
(14) advise the Permanent Representative of 
the United States to the United Nations on matters 
pertaining to the United Nations Security Council; 
(15) support the implementation of inter-
national peacebuilding strategies through a balanced 
use of peacebuilding, reconciliation, diplomacy, devel-
opment, and defense with the goal of preventing and 
ending war and violence; and 
(16) encourage all nations to create infrastruc-
tures for peace within their nations and among na-
tions. 
(d) 
MEMBERSHIP
OF
THE
SECRETARY
OF 
PEACEBUILDING ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUN-
CIL.—Section 101(c) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3021(c)) is amended by inserting ‘‘the Sec-
retary of Peacebuilding’’ after ‘‘Treasury’’. 
(e) HUMAN SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Sec-
retary shall address and offer nonviolent conflict resolu-
tion 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 
or crisis, whether such conflict or crisis is geographic, reli-
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gious, ethnic, gender-based, racial, or class-based in its or-
igin, derives from economic concerns, health concerns or 
is initiated through disputes concerning scarcity of natural 
resources (such as water and energy resources), food, 
health resources (such as life-saving medicine, medical and 
protective equipment and supplies, including viral and bac-
terial infection testing supplies and vaccines), trade, or cli-
mate and environmental concerns. 
(f) MEDIA-RELATED RESPONSIBILITIES.—Respect-
ing 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 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, 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 opportuni-
ties to increase media awareness of peacebuilding 
initiatives. 
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(g) EDUCATIONAL
RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Sec-
retary shall— 
(1) consult with the United States Institute of 
Peace, the Department of Education and other con-
cerned individuals and organizations and develop a 
peace education curriculum that includes studies 
of— 
(A) the civil rights movement in the United 
States and throughout the world and human 
rights and liberties movements, with special em-
phasis on the role of nonviolence and how indi-
vidual endeavor and involvement have contrib-
uted to advancements in peace and justice; 
(B) underlying causes of violence and con-
ditions of peace; 
(C) practices that enhance peace and 
peacebuilding; 
(D) the contributions to the United States 
of its diverse ethnicities, races, and religious 
communities; 
(E) peace agreements and circumstances in 
which peaceful intervention has worked to stop 
conflict; and 
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