I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 808 
To establish a Department of Peace. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 
Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. LEE 
of California, Ms. MOORE, Mr. POLIS, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. 
DEFAZIO, Mr. FARR, Ms. NORTON, Mr. OLVER, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. 
BALDWIN, and Ms. WOOLSEY) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in 
addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, and Edu-
cation and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a Department of Peace. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Department of Peace Act of 2011’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
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TITLE I—ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACE 
Sec. 101. Establishment of Department of Peace. 
Sec. 102. Responsibilities and powers. 
Sec. 103. Principal officers. 
Sec. 104. Office of Peace Education and Training. 
Sec. 105. Office of Domestic Peace Activities. 
Sec. 106. Office of International Peace Activities. 
Sec. 107. Office of Technology for Peace. 
Sec. 108. Office of Arms Control and Disarmament. 
Sec. 109. Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. 
Sec. 110. Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights. 
Sec. 111. Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace. 
Sec. 112. Consultation required. 
Sec. 113. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE II—ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS AND TRANSFERS OF 
AGENCY FUNCTIONS 
Sec. 201. Staff. 
Sec. 202. Transfers. 
Sec. 203. Conforming amendments. 
TITLE III—FEDERAL INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON PEACE 
Sec. 301. Federal Interagency Committee on Peace. 
TITLE IV—PEACE DAY 
Sec. 401. Peace Day. 
SEC. 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. 
(2) In 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, Lib-
erty and the Pursuit of Happiness’’, the drafters of 
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the Declaration of Independence, appealing to the 
Supreme Judge of the World, derived the creative 
cause of nationhood from ‘‘the Laws of Nature’’ and 
the entitlements of ‘‘Nature’s God’’, such literal re-
ferrals in the Declaration of Independence thereby 
serving to celebrate the unity of human thought, 
natural law, and spiritual causation. 
(3) The architects of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence ‘‘with a firm reliance on the protection of 
divine providence’’ spoke to the connection between 
the original work infusing principle into the struc-
ture of a democratic government seeking to elevate 
the condition of humanity, and the activity of a 
higher power which moves to guide the Nation’s for-
tune. 
(4) The Constitution of the United States of 
America, in its Preamble, further sets forth the in-
surance 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 domes-
tic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Bless-
ings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity’’. 
(5) The Founders of this country gave America 
a vision of freedom for the ages and provided people 
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with a document which gave this Nation the ability 
to adapt to an undreamed of future. 
(6) It is the sacred duty of the people of the 
United States to receive the living truths of our 
founding documents and to think anew to develop 
institutions that permit the unfolding of the highest 
moral principles in this Nation and around the 
world. 
(7) During the course of the 20th century, 
more than 100,000,000 people perished in wars, and 
now, at the dawn of the 21st century, violence seems 
to be an overarching theme in the world, encom-
passing personal, group, national, and international 
conflict, extending to the production of nuclear, bio-
logical, and chemical weapons of mass destruction 
which have been developed for use on land, air, sea, 
and in space. 
(8) Such conflict is often taken as a reflection 
of the human condition without questioning whether 
the structures of thought, word, and deed which the 
people of the United States have inherited are any 
longer sufficient for the maintenance, growth, and 
survival of the United States and the world. 
(9) Personal violence in the United States has 
great human and financial costs. A 2004 World 
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Health Organization report estimates that inter-
personal violence within the United States costs ap-
proximately $300 billion annually, not including 
war-related costs. The U.S. Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention states that an average of 16 
young people age 10 to 24 were murdered each day 
in the United States in 2005. The Pew Charitable 
Trust calculates that child abuse and neglect in the 
United States cost $103.8 billion in 2007. 
(10) Promoting a culture of peace has been rec-
ognized by the United Nations Educational, Sci-
entific 
and 
Cultural 
Organization 
(UNESCO) 
through passage of a resolution declaring an Inter-
national Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Vi-
olence for the Children 2001–2010. The objective is 
to further strengthen the global movement for a cul-
ture of peace following the observance of the Inter-
national Year for the Culture of Peace in 2000. 
(11) We are in a new millennium, and the time 
has come to review age-old challenges with new 
thinking wherein we can conceive of peace as not 
simply being the absence of violence, but the active 
presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of the 
human awareness, of respect, trust, and integrity; 
wherein we all may tap the infinite capabilities of 
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humanity to transform consciousness and conditions 
which impel or compel violence at a personal, group, 
or national level toward developing a new under-
standing of, and a commitment to, compassion and 
love, in order to create a ‘‘shining city on a hill’’, the 
light of which is the light of nations. 
TITLE I—ESTABLISHMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT OF PEACE 
SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established a 
Department of Peace (hereinafter in this Act referred to 
as the ‘‘Department’’), which shall— 
(1) be a cabinet-level department in the execu-
tive branch of the Government; and 
(2) be dedicated to peacemaking and the study 
of conditions that are conducive to both domestic 
and international peace. 
(b) SECRETARY OF PEACE.—There shall be at the 
head of the Department a Secretary of Peace (hereinafter 
in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), who shall be 
appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate. 
(c) MISSION.—The Department shall— 
(1) hold the cultivation of peace as a strategic 
national policy objective; 
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(2) reduce and prevent violence in the United 
States and internationally through peacebuilding and 
effective nonviolent conflict resolution; 
(3) strengthen nonmilitary means of peace-
making; 
(4) work to create peace, prevent violence, pre-
vent armed conflict, use field-tested programs, and 
promote best practices in nonviolent dispute resolu-
tion; 
(5) take a proactive, strategic approach in the 
development of policies that promote national and 
international conflict prevention, nonviolent interven-
tion, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and 
structured mediation of conflict; 
(6) address matters both domestic and inter-
national in scope; 
(7) provide an institutional platform for the 
growing wealth of expertise in peacebuilding to dra-
matically reduce the national and global epidemic of 
violence; 
(8) support local communities in finding, fund-
ing, replicating, and expanding programs to reduce 
and prevent violence; 
(9) invest in non-governmental organizations 
that have implemented successful initiatives to re-
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duce and prevent violence, both internationally and 
domestically; and 
(10) work with other government agencies to 
apply and practice the science of peacebuilding in 
their respective fields of responsibility. 
SEC. 102. RESPONSIBILITIES AND POWERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall— 
(1) work proactively and interactively with each 
branch of the Government on all policy matters re-
lating to conditions of peace; 
(2) serve as a delegate to the National Security 
Council; 
(3) call on the experience and expertise of the 
people of the United States and seek participation in 
the development of policy from private, public, and 
non-governmental organizations; and 
(4) monitor and analyze causative principles of 
conflict and make policy recommendations for devel-
oping and maintaining peaceful conduct. 
(b) DOMESTIC RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Secretary 
shall— 
(1) develop policies that address domestic vio-
lence, including spousal abuse, child abuse, and mis-
treatment of the elderly; 
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(2) create new policies and programs and ex-
pand existing policies and programs that effectively 
reduce drug and alcohol abuse; 
(3) develop new policies and programs and ex-
pand existing policies and programs that effectively 
address crime, punishment, and rehabilitation, in-
cluding— 
(A) working to reduce prison recidivism 
rates; 
(B) supporting the implementation of non-
violent conflict resolution education and train-
ing for victims, perpetrators, and those who 
work with them; and 
(C) supporting effective police and commu-
nity relations; 
(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-
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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 
(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 
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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; 
(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 
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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 
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 
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(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 
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-
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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; 
(2) in cooperation with the Secretary of Edu-
cation— 
(A) commission the development of such 
curricula and make such curricula available to 
local school districts to enable the utilization of 
peace education objectives at all elementary and 
secondary schools in the United States; and 
(B) offer incentives in the form of grants 
and training to encourage the development of 
State peace curricula and assist schools in ap-
plying for such curricula; 
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(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) support the development and implementa-
tion of curricula in nonviolent conflict resolution 
education for teachers and students; 
(5) maintain a site on the Internet for the pur-
poses of soliciting and receiving ideas for the devel-
opment of peace from the wealth of political, social, 
and cultural diversity; 
(6) proactively engage the critical thinking ca-
pabilities of grade school, high school, and college 
students and teachers through the Internet and 
other media and issue periodic reports concerning 
submissions; 
(7) create and establish a Peace Academy, 
which 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 
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(8) provide grants for peace studies depart-
ments in colleges and universities throughout the 
United States. 
SEC. 103. PRINCIPAL OFFICERS. 
(a) UNDER SECRETARY OF PEACE.—The President 
shall appoint an Under Secretary of Peace in the Depart-
ment, 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 for and perform the functions of the 
Secretary during the absence or disability of both the Sec-
retary and Under Secretary or in the event of vacancies 
in both of those offices. 
(b) ADDITIONAL POSITIONS.—(1) 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 Peace 
Activities; 
(C) an Assistant Secretary for International 
Peace Activities; 
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(D) an Assistant Secretary for Technology for 
Peace; 
(E) an Assistant Secretary for Arms Control 
and Disarmament; 
(F) an Assistant Secretary for Peaceful Coex-
istence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution; 
(G) an Assistant Secretary for Human and 
Economic Rights; and 
(H) a General Counsel. 
(2) The President shall appoint an Inspector General 
in the Department, in accordance with the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 
(3) The President shall appoint four additional offi-
cers in the Department, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate. The officers appointed under this para-
graph shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall 
prescribe, including— 
(A) congressional relations functions; 
(B) public information functions, including pro-
viding, 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 develop-
ment functions, including development of policies to 
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promote the efficient and coordinated administration 
of the Department and its programs and encourage 
improvements in conflict resolution and violence pre-
vention. 
(4) 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 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 
elementary, secondary, university, and postgraduate levels, 
including the development of a Peace Academy. 
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(b) PEACE CURRICULUM.—The Assistant Secretary 
of Peace Education and Training, in cooperation with the 
Secretary of Education, shall support the dissemination 
and development of effective peace curricula and sup-
porting materials for distribution to departments of edu-
cation in each State and territory of the United States. 
The peace curriculum shall include the building of commu-
nicative peace skills, nonviolent conflict resolution skills, 
and 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 colleges 
and universities for the creation and expansion of 
peace studies departments and the education and 
training of teachers in peace studies; and 
(2) create a Community Peace Block Grant 
program under which the Secretary shall make 
grants to not-for-profit and non-governmental orga-
nizations for the purpose of developing innovative 
neighborhood programs for nonviolent conflict reso-
lution and creating local peacebuilding initiatives. 
SEC. 105. OFFICE OF DOMESTIC PEACE ACTIVITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 
an Office of Domestic Peace Activities, the head of which 
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shall be the Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peace Ac-
tivities. The Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peace Ac-
tivities shall carry out those functions in the Department 
affecting domestic peace activities, including the develop-
ment of policies that increase awareness about interven-
tion and counseling on domestic violence and conflict. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 
Domestic Peace Activities shall— 
(1) develop policy alternatives and disseminate 
best practices from the field for the treatment of 
drug and alcohol abuse; 
(2) develop new policies and build on existing 
programs responsive to the prevention of crime, in-
cluding the development of community policing 
strategies and peaceful settlement skills among po-
lice and other public safety officers; and 
(3) develop community-based strategies for cele-
brating diversity and promoting tolerance. 
SEC. 106. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE ACTIVITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 
an Office of International Peace Activities, the head of 
which shall be the Assistant Secretary for International 
Peace Activities. The Assistant Secretary for International 
Peace Activities shall carry out those functions in the De-
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partment affecting international peace activities and shall 
be a member of the National Security Council. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 
International Peace Activities shall— 
(1) provide for the training and deployment of 
all Peace Academy graduates and other nonmilitary 
conflict prevention and peacemaking personnel; 
(2) support country and regional conflict pre-
vention and dispute resolution initiatives in countries 
experiencing social, political, or economic strife; 
(3) advocate for the creation of a multinational 
nonviolent peace force; 
(4) provide training for the administration of 
post-conflict reconstruction and demobilization in 
war-torn societies; and 
(5) provide for the exchanges between individ-
uals of the United States and other nations who are 
endeavoring to develop domestic and international 
peace-based initiatives. 
(c) GRANTS.—The Assistant Secretary for Inter-
national Peace Activities shall create a Cultural Diplomacy 
for Peace Grant program under which the Secretary shall 
make grants to schools, non-profits, and non-governmental 
organizations for the purpose of developing international 
cultural exchanges, including the arts and sports that pro-
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mote diplomacy and cultural understanding between the 
United States and members of the international commu-
nity. 
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 of Technology for Peace. The 
Assistant Secretary of Technology for Peace shall carry 
out those functions in the Department affecting the 
awareness, study, and impact of developing new tech-
nologies on the creation and maintenance of domestic and 
international peace. 
(b) GRANTS.—The Assistant Secretary of Technology 
for Peace shall make grants for the research and develop-
ment of technologies in transportation, communications, 
and energy that— 
(1) are nonviolent in their application; and 
(2) encourage the conservation and sustain-
ability of natural resources in order to prevent fu-
ture conflicts regarding scarce resources. 
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 of Arms Control 
and Disarmament. The Assistant Secretary of Arms Con-
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trol and Disarmament shall carry out those functions in 
the Department affecting arms control programs and 
arms limitation agreements. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary of 
Arms Control and Disarmament shall— 
(1) advise the Secretary on interagency discus-
sions and international negotiations regarding the 
reduction and elimination of weapons of mass de-
struction throughout the world, including the dis-
mantling of such weapons and the safe and secure 
storage of materials related thereto; 
(2) assist nations, international agencies, and 
non-governmental organizations in assessing the lo-
cations of the buildup of nuclear arms; 
(3) develop nonviolent strategies to deter the 
testing or use of offensive or defensive nuclear weap-
ons, whether based on land, air, sea, or in space; 
(4) serve as a depository for copies of all con-
tracts, agreements, and treaties that deal with the 
reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons or the 
protection of space from militarization; and 
(5) provide technical support and legal assist-
ance for the implementation of such agreements. 
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SEC. 109. OFFICE OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE AND NON-
VIOLENT CONFLICT RESOLUTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 
an Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict 
Resolution, the head of which shall be the Assistant Sec-
retary for Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict 
Resolution. The Assistant Secretary for Peaceful Coexist-
ence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution shall carry out 
those functions in the Department affecting research and 
analysis relating to creating, initiating, and modeling ap-
proaches to peaceful coexistence and nonviolent conflict 
resolution. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 
Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution 
shall— 
(1) commission or compile studies on the im-
pact of war, especially on the physical and mental 
condition of children (using the ten-point anti-war 
agenda in the United Nations Childrens Fund re-
port, State of the World’s Children 1996, as a 
guide), which 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 infor-
mation to local governments and non-governmental 
organizations in the United States and abroad; 
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(3) commission or compile research on the ef-
fect of violence in the media and make such reports 
available to the Congress annually; 
(4) publish a monthly journal of the activities 
of the Department and encourage scholarly partici-
pation; and 
(5) sponsor conferences throughout the United 
States to create awareness of the work of the De-
partment. 
SEC. 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 passed 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 cooperation with the 
Secretary of State, in furthering the incorporation of 
the principles of human rights, as enunciated in the 
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 217A 
(III) of December 10, 1948, into all agreements be-
tween the United States and other nations to help 
reduce the causes of violence; 
(2) gather information on and document human 
rights abuses, both domestically and internationally, 
and recommend to the Secretary nonviolent re-
sponses to correct abuses; 
(3) make such findings available to other agen-
cies in order to facilitate nonviolent conflict resolu-
tion; 
(4) provide trained observers to work with non- 
governmental organizations for purposes of creating 
a climate that is 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 devel-
opment of programs to assist people facing such 
scarcity, whether due to armed conflict, maldistribu-
tion of resources, or natural causes; 
(6) assist the Secretary, in cooperation with the 
Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treas-
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ury, in developing strategies regarding the sustain-
ability and the management of the distribution of 
funds from international agencies, the conditions re-
garding the receipt of such funds, and the impact of 
those conditions on the peace and stability of the re-
cipient nations; 
(7) assist the Secretary, in cooperation with the 
Secretary of State and the Secretary of Labor, in 
developing strategies to promote full compliance with 
domestic and international labor rights law; and 
(8) conduct policy analysis to ensure that the 
international development investments of the United 
States positively impact the peace and stability of 
the recipient nation. 
SEC. 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 (hereinafter in this Act re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Council’’). The Council shall provide as-
sistance and make recommendations to the Secretary and 
the President concerning intergovernmental policies relat-
ing to peace and nonviolent conflict resolution. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Council shall— 
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(1) provide a forum for representatives of Fed-
eral, State, and local governments to discuss peace 
issues; 
(2) promote better intergovernmental relations 
and offer professional mediation services to resolve 
intergovernmental conflict as needed; and 
(3) submit, biennially or more frequently if de-
termined necessary by the Council, a report to the 
Secretary, the President, and the Congress reviewing 
the impact of Federal peace activities on State and 
local governments. 
SEC. 112. CONSULTATION REQUIRED. 
(a) CONSULTATION IN CASES OF CONFLICT.—(1) In 
any case in which a conflict between the United States 
and any other government or entity is imminent or occur-
ring, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State 
shall consult with the Secretary concerning nonviolent 
means of conflict resolution. 
(2) In any case in which such a conflict is ongoing 
or recently concluded, the Secretary shall conduct inde-
pendent studies of diplomatic initiatives undertaken by the 
United States and other parties to the conflict. 
(3) In any case in which such a conflict has recently 
concluded, the Secretary shall assess the effectiveness of 
those initiatives in ending the conflict. 
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