Activities of the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization related to disarmament

At its twenty-first session, the General Conference adopted resolution 11.1, entitled “Creation of a climate of opinion conducive to the halting of the arms race and the transition to disarmament”. It also adopted, at the same session, resolution 3.01 on the programme for the social sciences and their applications, of which objective 2.1 concerns the “promotion of peace research, in particular on manifestations of violation of peace, causes preventing its realisation, ways and means to eliminate them and proper measures to be taken in order to maintain and reinforce a just, lasting and constructive peace at the level of groups, societies and the world . . . ”

Related Subject(s): Disarmament