dent shall state the particular functions such indi-
vidual will exercise upon taking office. 
(c) AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY.—Each officer de-
scribed in this section shall report directly to the Secretary 
and shall, in addition to any functions vested in or re-
quired to be delegated to such officer, perform such addi-
tional functions as the Secretary may prescribe. 
SEC. 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 Edu-
cation and Training. The Assistant Secretary for Peace 
Education and Training shall carry out those functions 
of the Department relating to the creation, encourage-
ment, 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 Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, including— 
(1) the Administration for Children and Fami-
lies; 
(2) the Administration on Aging; 
(3) the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion; and 
(4) the National Institutes of Health. 
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(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 high-
er education, and Federal agencies that provide effective 
peace training materials and curricula, shall create and 
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 and any other interested institutions. 
Each peace curriculum shall include— 
(1) building communicative peace skills and 
nonviolent conflict resolution skills; 
(2) teaching and fostering compassion, empa-
thy, mindfulness, kindness, acceptance, under-
standing, respect, inclusion, and forgiveness; 
(3) teaching about historical and contemporary 
events utilizing nonviolent and peacebuilding prin-
ciples to promote a culture of peace and about indi-
viduals and organizations employing nonviolent and 
peacebuilding principles to improve society; 
(4) teaching about the benefits of a peaceful so-
ciety, including economic, health, social, and sci-
entific implications of peace; and 
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(5) promoting other objectives to increase the 
knowledge of peace processes. 
(c) GRANTS.—The Assistant Secretary of Peace Edu-
cation and Training shall— 
(1) provide peace education grants to institu-
tions of higher education for the creation and expan-
sion of peace studies departments and the education 
and training of teachers in peace studies, violence 
prevention, peacebuilding, community building, and 
nonviolent conflict resolution skills; 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 school and 
neighborhood programs for nonviolent conflict reso-
lution and creating local peacebuilding initiatives. 
SEC. 105. OFFICE OF DOMESTIC PEACEBUILDING ACTIVI-
TIES. 
(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 Do-
mestic Peacebuilding Activities shall carry out those func-
tions in the Department affecting domestic peace activi-
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ties, including the development of policies that prevent do-
mestic violence and that increase awareness about inter-
vention and counseling on domestic violence and conflict. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 
Domestic Peacebuilding Activities shall— 
(1) develop policy and disseminate best prac-
tices from the field for the treatment of drug and al-
cohol abuse; 
(2) develop community-based strategies for cele-
brating diversity and promoting acceptance; 
(3) develop new policies and build upon existing 
proven programs to prevent the school-to-prison 
pipeline by promoting restorative and conflict resolu-
tion practices at pre-kindergarten, elementary, sec-
ondary, university, and post graduate levels and in 
police academies, with funding for teacher, staff, 
student, and community training in nonviolence, re-
storative practices, conflict resolution, and diversity 
understanding and appreciation; 
(4) develop new policies and build on existing 
proven programs— 
(A) to assist in the prevention of hate, a 
culture of violence and domination, violence and 
crime, including the development of non-threat-
ening, non-harassing community policing strate-
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gies, 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 com-
munity by individuals who have been incarcer-
ated by providing trauma healing, including 
training in anger management, conflict resolu-
tion, peacebuilding skills, life skills, and edu-
cational and job skills; 
(C) to assist in creating strong, happy, and 
healthy families, including supporting mental 
health services, domestic violence prevention, 
gang prevention, anti-bullying programs, animal 
cruelty prevention, substance abuse prevention, 
and the development of peaceful parenting 
skills; 
(D) to promote peacebuilding and commu-
nity-building and to provide restorative justice 
and restorative practice programs at all levels 
of the criminal justice system that bring to-
gether offenders, victims, and community mem-
bers in an effort to repair the damage caused 
by criminal activity through accountability and 
rehabilitation; 
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(E) to develop violence prevention and vio-
lence de-escalation training for the general pub-
lic to provide peacebuilding tools for all and to 
promote sustainable peace, peacebuilding buy- 
in, and peacebuilding awareness; 
(F) to provide for training and deployment 
into neighborhoods of nonmilitary domestic con-
flict prevention and peacemaking personnel, in-
cluding violence interrupters, community safety 
task force, and civilian community peace-
keepers; 
(G) to implement respectful, non-targeting, 
and non-harassing community-based policing to 
break down barriers between law enforcement 
officers and the people such officers serve; and 
(H) to encourage and facilitate formation 
of locally and State-run and administered citi-
zen’s boards to recommend any appropriate 
training as needed for working compassionately 
and effectively with local, regional, and State 
populations and to review and hold accountable 
actions of all local, regional, and State police 
and law enforcement departments in the United 
States; 
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(5) promote informal and cultural exchanges 
between individuals and groups of proximate neigh-
borhoods and regions to encourage understanding 
and acceptance; and 
(6) disseminate applicable policies and research 
in consultation with— 
(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 establish 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 organi-
zations, and nongovernmental organizations for the pur-
pose of developing domestic cultural exchanges, including 
exchanges relating to the arts, sports, science, and other 
academic disciplines, that promote diplomacy and cultural 
understanding between neighborhoods and members of 
such neighborhoods. 
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SEC. 106. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PEACEBUILDING AC-
TIVITIES. 
(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 Inter-
national 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 deploy-
ment of graduates of the Peace Academy estab-
lished under section 102(g) and other non-
military conflict prevention and peacemaking 
personnel; 
(B) support national and regional conflict- 
prevention, de-escalation, and peaceful dispute- 
resolution initiatives in countries experiencing 
social, political, medical, or economic strife and 
among all nations; 
(C) develop violence prevention, ameliora-
tion and de-escalation training for the general 
public to educate about peacebuilding skills and 
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to promote sustainable peace, peacebuilding 
buy-in and peacebuilding awareness; 
(D) provide training for the administration 
of post-conflict reconstruction and demobiliza-
tion in war-torn societies; 
(E) address root causes of violence; 
(F) eradicate extreme hunger, infectious 
and other diseases, and poverty; 
(G) eradicate genocide; 
(H) achieve universal primary education; 
(I) empower women and girls; 
(J) eradicate human trafficking; and 
(K) eradicate dehumanization and mis-
treatment of individuals; 
(2) support the creation of a multinational non-
violent peace force; 
(3) provide for exchanges between individuals of 
the United States and other countries that are en-
deavoring to develop domestic and international 
peace-based initiatives; and 
(4) disseminate applicable policies and research 
in consultation with— 
(A) the Department of State; 
(B) the Department of Labor; 
(C) the Peace Corps; and 
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(D) the United States Institute of Peace. 
(c) GRANTS.—The Assistant Secretary for Inter-
national Peacebuilding Activities shall establish a grant 
program to be known as the International Cultural Diplo-
macy for Peace grant program under which the Secretary 
shall make grants to pre-kindergarten schools, elementary 
schools, secondary schools, institutions of higher edu-
cation, nonprofit organizations, and nongovernmental or-
ganizations for the purpose of developing international 
cultural exchanges, including exchanges related to the 
arts, sports, science, and other academic disciplines, that 
promote diplomacy and cultural understanding between 
the United States and other countries. 
SEC. 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, ethical implications and impact of evolv-
ing existing technologies and developing new technologies, 
including artificial intelligence and data science and infor-
mation, on the creation and maintenance of domestic and 
international peace, and disseminate applicable policies 
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and research in consultation with appropriate entities of 
the Department of State. 
(b) GRANTS.—The Assistant Secretary for Tech-
nology for Peace shall make grants for the research and 
development of technologies in transportation, commu-
nications, agriculture, medicine, and energy that— 
(1) are nonviolent in application; 
(2) encourage the conservation and sustain-
ability of natural resources, including air, water, 
land, in order to prevent future conflicts regarding 
scarce resources due to overuse or natural or 
human-caused disasters, including climate change 
and pandemics; and 
(3) promote a green, peaceful economy. 
SEC. 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 Con-
trol 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— 
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