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-
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, 
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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; 
(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 
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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; 
(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 
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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. 
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-
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military conflict prevention and peacemaking 
personnel; 
(B) support national and regional conflict- 
prevention, de-escalation, and peaceful dispute- 
resolution initiatives in nations experiencing so-
cial, political, medical, or economic strife and 
among all nations; 
(C) develop community building, violence 
prevention, 
amelioration 
and 
de-escalation 
training for the general public to educate about 
peacebuilding skills and 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; 
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(2) support the creation of a multinational non-
violent peace force; 
(3) provide for exchanges between individuals of 
the United States and other nations that are endeav-
oring 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; 
(D) the United States Institute of Peace; 
and 
(E) any other applicable entities. 
(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 
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promote diplomacy and cultural understanding between 
the United States and other nations. 
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, mobile technologies, social 
media, drones, and data science and information, 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 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 
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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— 
(1) advise the Secretary on interagency discus-
sions and international negotiations, including dis-
cussions involving the United Nations, the Secretary 
of State, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the 
Secretary of Defense, regarding the increase or re-
duction and elimination of weapons of mass destruc-
tion throughout the world, including the dismantling 
of such weapons and the safe and secure storage of 
materials related thereto and efforts to limit or cease 
development, testing, manufacture or possession of 
nuclear weapons or threats to use them or to allow 
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any nuclear arms to be stationed in the territory of 
any nation; 
(2) assist nations, international agencies, and 
nongovernmental organizations in assessing the loca-
tions of the buildup of nuclear arms and other weap-
ons of mass destruction; 
(3) develop nonviolent strategies to prevent and 
deter testing or use of offensive or defensive nuclear 
weapons, weaponized drones, assault weapons, and 
other weapons of mass destruction, whether based 
on land, underground, air, sea, or in space; 
(4) serve as a depository for copies of all con-
tracts, agreements, and treaties that address the re-
duction and elimination of nuclear weapons and 
other weapons of mass destruction, and the protec-
tion of space from militarization; 
(5) provide technical support and legal assist-
ance for the implementation of such contracts, 
agreements, and treaties; 
(6) disseminate applicable policies and research 
in consultation with the Department of State and 
the Department of Commerce; and 
(7) address and support nuclear waste cleanup 
at nuclear test sites, nuclear research facilities and 
laboratories, Superfund Sites of former and present 
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military bases in the United States and abroad and 
at lands, in waters, and in the air adjacent to old 
and new nuclear reactors and nuclear-contaminated 
sites. 
SEC. 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 affect-
ing research and analysis relating to creating, initiating, 
and modeling approaches to peaceful coexistence and non-
violent conflict resolution and shall make this information 
available to Congress, the public, and other interested en-
tities on an ongoing basis. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 
Peacebuilding Information and Research shall— 
(1) commission or compile studies on the im-
pact of war, mass shootings, police violence 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 
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a guide) that shall include the study of the effect of 
war on the environment and public health; 
(2) commission or compile studies on the im-
pact of war and other types of violence on soldiers, 
veterans and civilians; 
(3) commission or compile studies on the effect 
of war and other types of violence on the environ-
ment, public health, the economy, and national secu-
rity; 
(4) commission or compile studies on the im-
pact of violence, racism and inequality on such con-
ditions of peace as health care, employment, edu-
cation, economic equity, food security, voting rights, 
housing, justice, and rule of law; 
(5) compile information on effective community 
peacebuilding activities and disseminate such infor-
mation to local governments and nongovernmental 
organizations in the United States and abroad; 
(6) commission or compile research on the ef-
fect of violence in the media, including the use of 
untruths, misinformation and false information and 
make such reports available to Congress and the 
public annually; 
(7) commission or compile research on the num-
ber and circumstances of deaths caused by law en-
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