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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1111
To establish a Department of Peacebuilding, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY7, 2025
Ms. O
MAR(for herself, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. CARSON, Mr. GARCI´Aof Illinois,
Mr. G
RIJALVA, Mr. JACKSONof Illinois, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Ms.
K
ELLYof Illinois, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. MOOREof Wisconsin, Ms. NOR-
TON, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ,
Mrs. M
CIVER, Mrs. WATSONCOLEMAN, Mr. SWALWELL, and Mr. TUR-
NERof Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To establish a Department of Peacebuilding, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
(a) S
HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
‘‘Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2025’’. 5
(b) T
ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6
this Act is as follows: 7
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
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TITLE I—ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACEBUILDING
Sec. 101. Establishment of Department of Peacebuilding.
Sec. 102. Responsibilities and powers.
Sec. 103. Principal officers.
Sec. 104. Office of Peace Education and Training.
Sec. 105. Office of Domestic Peacebuilding Activities.
Sec. 106. Office of International Peacebuilding Activities.
Sec. 107. Office of Technology for Peace.
Sec. 108. Office of Arms Control and Disarmament.
Sec. 109. Office of Peacebuilding Information and Research.
Sec. 110. Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights.
Sec. 111. Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace.
Sec. 112. Federal Interagency Committee on Peace.
Sec. 113. Staff.
Sec. 114. Consultation required.
Sec. 115. Collaboration.
TITLE II—OTHER MATTERS
Sec. 201. Legislative recommendations of the Secretary.
Sec. 202. Peace Days.
Sec. 203. Definitions.
Sec. 204. Authorization of appropriations.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
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Congress finds the following: 2
(1) On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental 3
Congress unanimously declared the independence of 4
the 13 colonies, and the achievement of peace was 5
recognized as one of the highest duties of the new 6
organization of free and independent States. 7
(2) The Constitution of the United States, in 8
its preamble, further sets forth the insurance of the 9
cause of peace in stating, ‘‘We the People of the 10
United States, in Order to form a more perfect 11
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tran-12
quility, provide for the common defense, promote the 13
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general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty 1
to ourselves and our Posterity’’. 2
(3) According to the Centre for Global Re-3
search, the United States has been at war for more 4
than 90 percent of its existence. Many of our citi-5
zens today have never known a peaceful year in their 6
lifetimes. 7
(4) Throughout the globe, starvation, rape, de-8
nial of media access to conflict zones, and disman-9
tling of civic and societal infrastructures, including 10
housing and healthcare, are utilized as weapons of 11
war. In 2024, UNICEF warned that rape and gen-12
der-based violence are often used as weapons of war 13
and that 1 out of every 8 girls alive today—some 14
370 million people—will experience rape or sexual 15
assault before they turn 18. More than 120 million 16
individuals have been forcibly displaced worldwide as 17
a result of persecution, conflict, violence, and human 18
rights violations. 19
(5) In the 21st century, the United States has 20
spent almost $8 trillion on foreign wars, with nearly 21
5 million lives lost. 22
(6) The physical, emotional, monetary, and 23
other costs of violence are enormous, cut across all 24
sectors of society in the United States, dispropor-25
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tionately impact people of color, and are inter-1
related. 2
(7) The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-3
vention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health 4
report 1 in 7 children experience some form of child 5
abuse or neglect in their lifetimes, nearly 1 in 4 6
women report having experienced severe physical vio-7
lence from an intimate partner, nearly 1 in 3 women 8
and 1 in 7 men experience some form of sexual vio-9
lence during their lifetimes, and Native American 10
women are sexually assaulted, murdered, and dis-11
appeared at higher rates than other American 12
women. Additionally, the lifetime economic cost asso-13
ciated with medical services for Intimate Partner Vi-14
olence-related injuries, lost productivity from paid 15
work, criminal justice and other costs, is $3.6 tril-16
lion according to the CDC. 17
(8) There are 3.3 million reports of violence 18
against children that result in foster care placements 19
every year; 25 percent of kids in foster care experi-20
ence PTSD, fewer than 3 percent earn a college de-21
gree; 20 percent become homeless after the age of 22
18; and only 50 percent will be employed by the age 23
of 24. One in five high school students reported 24
being bullied at school during 2017 and 25
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cyberbullying impacts many young people. Criminal-1
ization disproportionately impacts African Ameri-2
cans and other people of color, including high rates 3
of school suspensions and expulsions and incarcer-4
ation. African Americans are incarcerated at more 5
than five times the rate of Whites. 6
(9) In 2015, 17 percent of students considered 7
attempting suicide. Suicide is the second leading 8
cause of death among Native Americans aged 10 to 9
34. Approximately 17 veterans a day commit suicide 10
nationwide. About 12 young people in the United 11
States die from homicides each day. 12
(10) Restorative justice and practices have been 13
proven to significantly improve outcomes. In Sonoma 14
County, California, schools that introduced restora-15
tive practices saw their suspension rates drop by 16
nearly 30 percent. 17
(11) More Americans have died from gunshots 18
in the last 50 years than in all of the wars in Amer-19
ican history. 20
(12) Since 1968, more than 1.5 million Ameri-21
cans have died in gun-related incidents, according to 22
data from the CDC. Firearms are the leading cause 23
of death for American children and teens, 24
disproportionally affecting people of color, and cause 25
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more deaths in young people than cancer and car 1
crashes. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Vio-2
lence Prevention reports that in 2022, 48,204 people 3
died due to gun violence in the United States, the 4
second highest total ever recorded. Each day, an av-5
erage of 132 people died from gun violence—one 6
death every 11 minutes. In 2024, there were more 7
than 500 mass shootings, defined as incidents in 8
which 4 or more people are injured or killed. From 9
2020–2023, the number exceeded 600 annually. 10
Young people go to school wondering where to hide 11
when a shooter enters their classroom. Each gun in-12
jury and fatality results in trauma to family mem-13
bers, loved ones, and the community. 14
(13) According to reports by the Institute of 15
Economics and Peace, which measures the economic 16
impact of violence and conflict to the global econ-17
omy, the economic impact of violence to the global 18
economy was $16.5 trillion in 2021. One IEP report 19
found that the regional impact of violence in North 20
America, 99 percent of which can be attributed to 21
the United States, amounted to $2.73 trillion in 22
2017. 23
(14) Violence prevention is cost effective. For 24
every dollar spent on violence prevention and 25
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peacebuilding, thousands of lives and dollars are 1
saved. The philosophy and techniques of nonviolence 2
and peacebuilding provide tools and techniques that 3
can be applied not only at the levels of individual 4
and community growth, but also within the Federal 5
Government and at national and international levels. 6
(15) Peacebuilding is defined by the United Na-7
tions as a range of measures targeted to reduce the 8
risk of lapsing or relapsing into conflict by strength-9
ening national capacities at all levels for conflict 10
management and to lay the foundations for sustain-11
able peace and development. Peacebuilding is predi-12
cated on research into the root causes of violence in 13
the United States and the world, through promotion 14
and promulgation of effective policies and programs 15
that ameliorate those root causes of violence, and 16
through providing all citizens, organizations, and 17
governmental bodies with opportunities to learn 18
about and practice the essential tools of nonviolent 19
conflict resolution and peacebuilding. 20
(16) Peace is a human right and a security 21
issue. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 22
recognizes that ‘‘recognition of the inherent dignity 23
and of the equal and inalienable rights of all mem-24
bers of the human family is the foundation of free-25
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dom, justice and peace in the world’’, and General 1
Assembly resolution 39/11 ‘‘solemnly proclaims that 2
the peoples of our planet have a sacred right to 3
peace’’ and ‘‘emphasizes that ensuring the exercise 4
of the right of peoples to peace demands that the 5
policies of States be directed towards the elimination 6
of the threat of war, particularly nuclear war, the re-7
nunciation of the use of force in international rela-8
tions and the settlement of international disputes by 9
peaceful means on the basis of the Charter of the 10
United Nations’’. 11
(17) In 2000, the Earth Charter Commission 12
released the Earth Charter, an international declara-13
tion of fundamental values and principles created to 14
build a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society. 15
The preamble of the Earth Charter provides, ‘‘To 16
move forward we must recognize that in the midst 17
of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms 18
we are one human family and one Earth community 19
with a common destiny. We must join together to 20
bring forth a sustainable global society founded on 21
respect for nature, universal human rights, economic 22
justice, and a culture of peace.’’. 23
(18) Climate change is becoming a critical mul-24
tiplier of global conflict. Without immediate action, 25
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water scarcity, food insecurity, and other impacts of 1
climate change threaten to ignite new conflicts, par-2
ticularly in already fragile regions. A 2021 Lancet 3
global health study of 10,000 youth found 59 per-4
cent are ‘‘very’’ or ‘‘extremely concerned’’ about cli-5
mate change and its impact on their mental health. 6
(19) Nuclear weapons expose the world to harm 7
on a vast, extinction-level scale. It has long been 8
held that a nuclear war cannot be won and must 9
never be fought. Yet, the United States continues 10
expanding and modernizing its nuclear arsenal, 11
spending trillions of dollars that could instead be re-12
directed to the needs of American communities. 13
(20) Systemic racism is a significant driver of 14
violence and key obstacle to peace in the United 15
States. Confronting and uprooting systemic racism 16
in America will require efforts by the Federal Gov-17
ernment both to properly acknowledge, memorialize, 18
and provide reparations for historical injustices, in-19
cluding the institutions of slavery and Jim Crow. 20
(21) Economic insecurity and poverty are forms 21
of violence. Low wages and poverty contribute to 22
homelessness, health issues, lower life expectancy, 23
worse school attendance and many other outcomes. 24
According to the Poor People’s Campaign, poverty is 25
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the fourth leading cause of death in the United 1
States, claiming 295,000 lives every year. 2
TITLE I—ESTABLISHMENT OF 3
DEPARTMENT OF 4
PEACEBUILDING 5
SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF 6
PEACEBUILDING. 7
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established a 8
Department of Peacebuilding, which shall— 9
(1) be within the executive branch of the Fed-10
eral Government; and 11
(2) be dedicated to peacebuilding, peacemaking, 12
and the study and promotion of conditions conducive 13
to both domestic and international peace and a cul-14
ture of peace. 15
(b) S
ECRETARY OFPEACEBUILDING.—There shall be 16
at the head of the Department a Secretary of 17
Peacebuilding, who shall be appointed by the President, 18
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 19
(c) M
ISSION.—The Department shall— 20
(1) cultivate peace and peacebuilding as a stra-21
tegic national policy objective; 22
(2) reduce and prevent violence in the United 23
States and internationally through peacebuilding and 24
effective nonviolent conflict resolution; 25
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(3) strengthen nonmilitary means of peace-1
making; 2
(4) take a proactive, strategic approach in the 3
development of field-tested best practices and poli-4
cies that promote national and international conflict 5
prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, 6
peaceful resolution of conflict, and structured medi-7
ation of conflict; 8
(5) address matters both domestic and inter-9
national in scope; 10
(6) address the interconnection of all life and 11
the intersectionality of peace and justice, equality, 12
health, healing, national security, education, the 13
economy, rule of law, democracy, planetary survival, 14
and other aspects of civil rights, civil liberties, and 15
human rights; 16
(7) provide an institutional platform for the 17
growing wealth of expertise in peacebuilding to dra-18
matically reduce the national and global epidemic of 19
violence; 20
(8) support local communities in finding, fund-21
ing, replicating, and expanding programs to reduce 22
and prevent violence; 23
(9) invest in nongovernmental organizations 24
that have implemented successful initiatives to re-25
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duce and prevent violence, both internationally and 1
domestically; and 2
(10) consult with other Federal agencies to 3
apply and practice the science of peacebuilding in 4
their respective fields of responsibility. 5
SEC. 102. RESPONSIBILITIES AND POWERS. 6
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary shall, on an ongo-7
ing basis— 8
(1) work proactively and interactively with each 9
branch of the Federal Government on all policy mat-10
ters relating to conditions of peace; 11
(2) call on the experience and expertise of indi-12
viduals and seek participation in the development of 13
policy from private, public, and nongovernmental or-14
ganizations; 15
(3) monitor and analyze causative principles of 16
conflict and make policy recommendations for devel-17
oping conditions of peace and maintaining peaceful 18
conduct; 19
(4) research effective violence reduction pro-20
grams and promote and promulgate such programs 21
within the Federal Government and society; and 22
(5) consult with private, public, and nongovern-23
mental organizations to develop a metric model that 24
provides the means to measure and report progress 25
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toward peace in the United States to the President, 1
Congress, and the public, and issue reports on such 2
progress annually with those reports to be available 3
to the public on the website of the Department. 4
(b) D
OMESTICRESPONSIBILITIES.—The Secretary 5
shall collaborate with governmental and nongovernmental 6
organizations and individuals to promote personal and 7
community security and peace by— 8
(1) developing new policies and supporting ex-9
isting policies that effectively address personal and 10
family violence, including suicide, domestic violence, 11
spousal abuse, child abuse, and mistreatment of the 12
elderly and others; 13
(2) creating new policies and programs and ex-14
panding existing policies and programs that effec-15
tively reduce drug and alcohol abuse; 16
(3) analyzing existing policies, employing suc-17
cessful, field-tested programs, and developing new 18
approaches for dealing with the tools of violence, in-19
cluding handguns and assault weapons, especially 20
among youth; 21
(4) developing new and expanding effective pro-22
grams that address and ameliorate societal chal-23
lenges such as school violence, gangs, police violence, 24
hate crimes, economic injustice, human trafficking, 25
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racial or ethnic violence, violence against LGBTQ+ 1
individuals, and police-community relations disputes; 2
(5) making policy recommendations to the At-3
torney General of the United States regarding civil 4
rights and labor law; 5
(6) assisting in the establishment and funding 6
of community-based violence prevention programs, 7
including virtual violence prevention programs for 8
at-home participation, violence prevention counseling 9
and peer mediation in schools and via video con-10
ferences, and unarmed civilian peacekeeping and cri-11
sis mitigation at a local level; 12
(7) providing counseling and advocacy on behalf 13
of individuals victimized by violence, including those 14
with mental health challenges; 15
(8) providing for public education programs and 16
counseling strategies that promote acceptance and 17
respect for the diversity of all individuals in the 18
United States without regard to race, religion, creed, 19
gender and gender identification, sexual orientation, 20
age, ethnicity, national origin, class and economic 21
status, and other perceived differences; and 22
(9) supporting local community initiatives that 23
draw on neighborhood resources to create peace 24
projects that facilitate the development of conflict 25
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resolution and healing of societal wounds such as pa-1
triarchy, racism, war, manifest destiny, and eco-2
nomic injustice to thereby inform and inspire na-3
tional policy. 4
(c) I
NTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Sec-5
retary shall— 6
(1) advise the Secretary of Defense and the 7
Secretary of State on matters relating to national 8
security, including the protection of human rights 9
and the prevention of, amelioration of, and de-esca-10
lation of unarmed and armed international conflict; 11
(2) contribute to and participate in the develop-12
ment of training of all United States personnel who 13
administer post-conflict reconstruction and demobili-14
zation in war-torn societies; 15
(3) sponsor national and regional conflict-pre-16
vention and dispute-resolution initiatives, create spe-17
cial task forces, and draw on local, regional, and na-18
tional expertise to develop plans and programs for 19
addressing the root sources and issues of conflict in 20
troubled areas; 21
(4) develop violence prevention, amelioration 22
and violence de-escalation training for the general 23
public to provide tools and educate about 24
peacebuilding skills and to promote sustainable 25
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peace, peacebuilding buy-in and peacebuilding 1
awareness; 2
(5) counsel and advocate on behalf of women 3
victimized by violence, including rape, situations 4
leading up to conflict, conflicts, and post-conflict sit-5
uations; 6
(6) counsel and advocate on behalf of victims of 7
human trafficking both domestically and internation-8
ally and work to end the trafficking of human 9
beings; 10
(7) provide for exchanges between the United 11
States and other nations that endeavor to develop 12
domestic and international peace-based initiatives; 13
(8) encourage the development of international 14
sister city programs, pairing United States cities 15
with cities around the world for artistic, cultural, 16
economic, educational, and faith-based exchanges; 17
(9) establish and administer a budget des-18
ignated for the training and deployment of unarmed 19
civilian peacekeepers to participate in multinational 20
nonviolent peacekeeping forces that may be con-21
ducted by civilian, governmental, or multilateral or-22
ganizations; 23
(10) jointly with the Secretary of the Treasury, 24
strengthen peace enforcement through hiring and 25
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training monitors and investigators to help with the 1
enforcement of international arms embargoes; 2
(11) in consultation with the Secretary of State, 3
bring together all stakeholders who are impacted by 4
a conflict by facilitating peace summits where such 5
stakeholders may gather under carefully prepared 6
conditions to promote nonviolent communication and 7
mutually beneficial solutions and to prevent future 8
violence; 9
(12) submit to the President recommendations 10
for reductions and elimination of weapons of mass 11
destruction, and make annual reports to the Presi-12
dent on the sale of arms from the United States to 13
other nations, with an analysis of the impact of such 14
sales on the defense of the United States, how such 15
sales affect peace and security, and how reduction or 16
cessation of such sales affect peace and security; 17
(13) in consultation with the Secretary of State, 18
develop strategies for sustainability and management 19
of the distribution of international funds; 20
(14) advise the Permanent Representative of 21
the United States to the United Nations on matters 22
pertaining to the United Nations Security Council; 23
(15) support the implementation of inter-24
national peacebuilding strategies through a balanced 25
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use of peacebuilding, reconciliation, diplomacy, devel-1
opment, and defense with the goal of preventing and 2
ending war and violence; and 3
(16) encourage all nations to create infrastruc-4
tures for peace within their nations and among na-5
tions. 6
(d) M
EMBERSHIP OF THE SECRETARY OF 7
P
EACEBUILDING ON THE NATIONALSECURITYCOUN-8
CIL.—Section 101(c) of the National Security Act of 1947 9
(50 U.S.C. 3021(c)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, the Sec-10
retary of Peacebuilding’’ after ‘‘Treasury’’. 11
(e) H
UMANSECURITYRESPONSIBILITIES.—The Sec-12
retary shall address and offer nonviolent conflict resolu-13
tion strategies and suggest resources for unarmed civilian 14
peacekeepers to the appropriate relevant parties on issues 15
of human security if such security is threatened by conflict 16
or crisis, whether such conflict or crisis is geographic, reli-17
gious, ethnic, gender-based, racial, or class-based in its or-18
igin, derives from economic concerns, health concerns or 19
is initiated through disputes concerning scarcity of natural 20
resources (such as water and energy resources), food, 21
health resources (such as life saving medicine, medical and 22
protective equipment and supplies, including viral and bac-23
terial infection testing supplies and vaccines), trade, or cli-24
mate and environmental concerns. 25
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(f) MEDIA-RELATEDRESPONSIBILITIES.—Respect-1
ing the First Amendment to the Constitution of the 2
United States of America and the requirement for free and 3
independent media, the Secretary shall— 4
(1) seek assistance in the design and implemen-5
tation of nonviolent policies from media profes-6
sionals; 7
(2) study the role of the media in the escalation 8
and de-escalation of conflict at domestic and inter-9
national levels, including the role of fear-inducing 10
and hate-inducing speech and actions, and making 11
the findings of such study public; and 12
(3) make recommendations to professional 13
media organizations in order to provide opportuni-14
ties to increase media awareness of peacebuilding 15
initiatives. 16
(g) E
DUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Sec-17
retary shall— 18
(1) consult with the United States Institute of 19
Peace, the Department of Education, Indigenous 20
communities, and other concerned individuals and 21
organizations and develop a peace education cur-22
riculum that includes studies of— 23
(A) the civil rights movement in the United 24
States and throughout the world and human 25
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rights and liberties movements, with special em-1
phasis on the role of nonviolence and how indi-2
vidual endeavor and involvement have contrib-3
uted to advancements in peace and justice; 4
(B) underlying causes of violence and con-5
ditions of peace; 6
(C) practices that enhance peace and 7
peacebuilding; 8
(D) the contributions to the United States 9
of its diverse ethnicities, races, and religious 10
communities; 11
(E) peace agreements and circumstances in 12
which peaceful intervention has worked to stop 13
conflict; and 14
(F) the patriarchal structure of society and 15
the inherent violence of such structure in the 16
shaping of relationships and institutions; 17
(2) in consultation with the Secretary of Edu-18
cation— 19
(A) commission and participate in the de-20
velopment of such curriculum and make such 21
curriculum available to local school districts to 22
enable the use of peace education objectives at 23
pre-kindergarten schools, elementary schools, 24
and secondary schools in the United States; 25
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(B) support in early childhood, pre-kinder-1
garten schools, elementary schools, secondary 2
schools, and institutions of higher education a 3
well-resourced, balanced education that includes 4
math, environmental stewardship, science, 5
English, history, ethnic studies, economics, jus-6
tice, critical thinking, social studies, health, 7
physical education, foreign languages, the arts, 8
and music that will prepare students for success 9
in a globally interconnected world; and 10
(C) offer incentives in the form of grants 11
and training to encourage the development of 12
State peace curricula and assist schools in ap-13
plying for such grants and training; 14
(3) work with educators to equip students to 15
become skilled in achieving peace through reflection, 16
and facilitate instruction in the ways of peaceful 17
conflict resolution; 18
(4) ensure that schools are nonviolence zones 19
that provide a peaceful educational environment; 20
(5) create school and community cultures where 21
students and staff do not feel threatened and are 22
free from bullying and harassment by developing 23
and implementing curricula in nonviolent conflict 24
resolution education, mindfulness, and restorative 25
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practices for teachers, students, parents, the school 1
community, and the community at large; 2
(6) maintain a public website to solicit and re-3
ceive ideas for the development of peace from the 4
wealth of the politically, socially, and culturally di-5
verse public; 6
(7) proactively engage the critical thinking ca-7
pabilities, including civic education on citizen duties 8
to foster democratic principles, of students and 9
teachers of pre-kindergarten schools, elementary 10
schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher 11
education through the internet and other media and 12
issue periodic reports concerning any submissions 13
from such students and teachers; 14
(8) establish a Peace Academy that shall— 15
(A) be modeled after the military service 16
academies; and 17
(B) provide a 4-year course of instruction 18
in peace education, after which graduates will 19
be required to serve 5 years in public service in 20
programs dedicated to domestic or international 21
nonviolent conflict resolution; and 22
(9) provide grants for peace studies depart-23
ments in institutions of higher education throughout 24
the United States. 25
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SEC. 103. PRINCIPAL OFFICERS. 1
(a) U
NDERSECRETARY OF PEACEBUILDING.—The 2
President shall appoint an Under Secretary of 3
Peacebuilding in the Department, by and with the advice 4
and consent of the Senate. During the absence or dis-5
ability of the Secretary, or in the event of a vacancy in 6
the office of the Secretary, the Under Secretary shall act 7
as Secretary. The Secretary shall designate the order in 8
which other officials of the Department shall act and per-9
form the functions of the Secretary during the absence 10
or disability of both the Secretary and Under Secretary 11
or in the event of vacancies in both offices. 12
(b) A
DDITIONALPOSITIONS.— 13
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The President shall appoint 14
in the Department, by and with the advice and con-15
sent of the Senate— 16
(A) an Assistant Secretary for Peace Edu-17
cation and Training; 18
(B) an Assistant Secretary for Domestic 19
Peacebuilding Activities; 20
(C) an Assistant Secretary for Inter-21
national Peacebuilding Activities; 22
(D) an Assistant Secretary for Technology 23
for Peace; 24
(E) an Assistant Secretary for Arms Con-25
trol and Disarmament; 26
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(F) an Assistant Secretary for 1
Peacebuilding Information and Research; 2
(G) an Assistant Secretary for Human and 3
Economic Rights; and 4
(H) a General Counsel. 5
(2) E
STABLISHMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 6
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACEBUILDING .—Section 7
401 of title 5, United States Code (commonly re-8
ferred to as the Inspector General Act of 1978) is 9
amended— 10
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting 11
‘‘Peacebuilding,’’ after ‘‘Homeland Security,’’; 12
and 13
(B) in paragraph (3), by inserting 14
‘‘Peacebuilding,’’ after ‘‘Homeland Security,’’. 15
(3) A
DDITIONAL OFFICERS .—The President 16
shall appoint 4 additional officers in the Depart-17
ment, by and with the advice and consent of the 18
Senate. The officers appointed under this paragraph 19
shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall 20
prescribe, including— 21
(A) congressional relations functions; 22
(B) public information functions, including 23
providing, through the use of the latest tech-24
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nologies, useful information about peace and 1
the work of the Department; 2
(C) management and budget functions; 3
and 4
(D) planning, evaluation, and policy devel-5
opment functions, including development of 6
policies to promote the efficient and coordinated 7
administration of the Department and its pro-8
grams and encourage improvements in conflict 9
resolution and violence prevention. 10
(4) D
ESCRIPTION OF FUNCTIONS .—In any case 11
in which the President submits the name of an indi-12
vidual to the Senate for confirmation as an officer 13
of the Department under this subsection, the Presi-14
dent shall state the particular functions such indi-15
vidual will exercise upon taking office. 16
(c) A
UTHORITY OF SECRETARY.—Each officer de-17
scribed in this section shall report directly to the Secretary 18
and shall, in addition to any functions vested in or re-19
quired to be delegated to such officer, perform such addi-20
tional functions as the Secretary may prescribe. 21
SEC. 104. OFFICE OF PEACE EDUCATION AND TRAINING. 22
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 23
an Office of Peace Education and Training, the head of 24
which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Peace Edu-25
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cation and Training. The Assistant Secretary for Peace 1
Education and Training shall carry out those functions 2
of the Department relating to the creation, encourage-3
ment, and impact of peace education and training at the 4
pre-kindergarten, elementary, secondary, university, and 5
postgraduate levels, and disseminate applicable policies 6
and research in consultation with entities of the Depart-7
ment of Health and Human Services, including— 8
(1) the Administration for Children and Fami-9
lies; 10
(2) the Administration on Aging; 11
(3) the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-12
tion; and 13
(4) the National Institutes of Health. 14
(b) P
EACECURRICULUM.—The Assistant Secretary 15
of Peace Education and Training, in consultation with the 16
Secretary of Education, Indigenous communities, the 17
United States Institute of Peace, nongovernmental organi-18
zations, public institutions, peace and conflict studies pro-19
grams of institutions of higher education, and Federal 20
agencies that provide effective peace training materials 21
and curricula, shall create and support the development 22
and dissemination of effective peace curricula and sup-23
porting materials for distribution to the State educational 24
agency in each State and territory of the United States 25
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and any other interested institutions. Each peace cur-1
riculum shall include— 2
(1) building communicative peace skills and 3
nonviolent conflict resolution skills; 4
(2) teaching and fostering compassion, empa-5
thy, mindfulness, kindness, acceptance, under-6
standing, respect, inclusion, and forgiveness; 7
(3) teaching about historical and contemporary 8
events utilizing nonviolent and peacebuilding prin-9
ciples to promote a culture of peace and about indi-10
viduals and organizations employing nonviolent and 11
peacebuilding principles to improve society; 12
(4) teaching about the benefits of a peaceful so-13
ciety, including economic, health, social, and sci-14
entific implications of peace; and 15
(5) promoting other objectives to increase the 16
knowledge of peace processes. 17
(c) G
RANTS.—The Assistant Secretary of Peace Edu-18
cation and Training shall— 19
(1) provide peace education grants to pre-kin-20
dergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary 21
schools, and institutions of higher education for the 22
creation and expansion of peace studies departments 23
and the education and training of teachers in peace 24
studies, violence prevention, peacebuilding, commu-25
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nity building, and nonviolent conflict resolution 1
skills; and 2
(2) establish a grant program to be known as 3
the Community Peace Block Grant program under 4
which the Secretary shall make grants to nonprofit 5
organizations and nongovernmental organizations for 6
the purposes of developing innovative school and 7
neighborhood programs for nonviolent conflict reso-8
lution and creating local peacebuilding initiatives. 9
SEC. 105. OFFICE OF DOMESTIC PEACEBUILDING ACTIVI-10
TIES. 11
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 12
an Office of Domestic Peacebuilding Activities, the head 13
of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Domestic 14
Peacebuilding Activities. The Assistant Secretary for Do-15
mestic Peacebuilding Activities shall carry out those func-16
tions in the Department affecting domestic peace activi-17
ties, including the development of policies that prevent do-18
mestic violence and that increase awareness about inter-19
vention and counseling on domestic violence and conflict. 20
(b) R
ESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 21
Domestic Peacebuilding Activities shall— 22
(1) develop policy and disseminate best prac-23
tices from the field for the treatment of drug and al-24
cohol abuse; 25
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(2) develop community-based strategies for cele-1
brating diversity and promoting acceptance; 2
(3) develop new policies and build upon existing 3
proven programs to prevent the school-to-prison 4
pipeline by promoting restorative and conflict resolu-5
tion practices at pre-kindergarten, elementary, sec-6
ondary, university, and post graduate levels and in 7
police academies, with funding for teacher, staff, 8
student, and community training in nonviolence, re-9
storative practices, conflict resolution, and diversity 10
understanding and appreciation; 11
(4) develop new policies and build on existing 12
proven programs— 13
(A) to assist in the prevention of hate, a 14
culture of violence and domination, violence and 15
crime, including the development of non-threat-16
ening, non-harassing community policing strate-17
gies, mindfulness, and conflict de-escalation 18
training, and other peaceful settlement skills 19
among police and other public safety officers; 20
(B) to assist in the re-entry into the com-21
munity by individuals who have been incarcer-22
ated by providing trauma healing, including 23
training in anger management, conflict resolu-24
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tion, peacebuilding skills, life skills, and edu-1
cational and job skills; 2
(C) to assist in creating strong, happy, and 3
healthy families, including supporting mental 4
health services, domestic violence prevention, 5
gang prevention, anti-bullying programs, animal 6
cruelty prevention, substance abuse prevention, 7
and the development of peaceful parenting 8
skills; 9
(D) to promote peacebuilding and commu-10
nity-building and to provide restorative justice 11
and restorative practice programs at all levels 12
of the criminal justice system that bring to-13
gether offenders, victims, and community mem-14
bers in an effort to repair the damage caused 15
by criminal activity through accountability and 16
rehabilitation; 17
(E) to develop violence prevention and vio-18
lence de-escalation training for the general pub-19
lic to provide peacebuilding tools for all and to 20
promote sustainable peace, peacebuilding buy- 21
in, and peacebuilding awareness; 22
(F) to provide for training and deployment 23
into neighborhoods of nonmilitary domestic con-24
flict prevention and peacemaking personnel, in-25
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cluding violence interrupters, community safety 1
task force, and civilian community peace-2
keepers; 3
(G) to implement respectful, non-targeting, 4
and non-harassing community-based policing to 5
break down barriers between law enforcement 6
officers and the people such officers serve; and 7
(H) to encourage and facilitate formation 8
of locally and State-run and administered citi-9
zen’s boards to recommend any appropriate 10
training as needed for working compassionately 11
and effectively with local, regional, and State 12
populations and to review and hold accountable 13
actions of all local, regional, and State police 14
and law enforcement departments in the United 15
States; 16
(5) promote informal and cultural exchanges 17
between individuals and groups of proximate neigh-18
borhoods and regions to encourage understanding 19
and acceptance; and 20
(6) disseminate applicable policies and research 21
in consultation with— 22
(A) the Department of Justice; 23
(B) the Department of Health and Human 24
Services; 25
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(C) the Department of State; and 1
(D) the Department of Education. 2
(c) G
RANTS.—The Assistant Secretary for Domestic 3
Peacebuilding Activities shall establish a grant program 4
to be known as the Cultural Diplomacy for Peace grant 5
program under which the Secretary shall make grants to 6
pre-kindergarten schools, elementary schools, secondary 7
schools, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organi-8
zations, and nongovernmental organizations for the pur-9
pose of developing domestic cultural exchanges, including 10
exchanges relating to the arts, sports, science, and other 11
academic disciplines, that promote diplomacy and cultural 12
understanding between neighborhoods and members of 13
such neighborhoods. 14
SEC. 106. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PEACEBUILDING AC-15
TIVITIES. 16
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 17
an Office of International Peacebuilding Activities, the 18
head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Inter-19
national Peacebuilding Activities. The Assistant Secretary 20
for International Peacebuilding Activities shall carry out 21
those functions in the Department affecting international 22
peace activities. 23
(b) R
ESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 24
International Peacebuilding Activities shall— 25
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(1) develop new programs and promote existing 1
proven programs to— 2
(A) provide for the training and deploy-3
ment of graduates of the Peace Academy estab-4
lished under section 102(g) and other non-5
military conflict prevention and peacemaking 6
personnel; 7
(B) support national and regional conflict- 8
prevention, de-escalation, and peaceful dispute- 9
resolution initiatives in nations experiencing so-10
cial, political, environmental, medical, or eco-11
nomic strife and among all nations; 12
(C) develop community building, violence 13
prevention, amelioration and de-escalation 14
training for the general public to educate about 15
peacebuilding skills and to promote sustainable 16
peace, peacebuilding buy-in and peacebuilding 17
awareness; 18
(D) provide training for the administration 19
of post-conflict reconstruction and demobiliza-20
tion in war-torn societies; 21
(E) address root causes of violence; 22
(F) eradicate extreme hunger, infectious 23
and other diseases, and poverty; 24
(G) eradicate genocide; 25
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(H) achieve universal primary education; 1
(I) empower women and girls; 2
(J) eradicate human trafficking; and 3
(K) eradicate dehumanization and mis-4
treatment of individuals; 5
(2) support the creation of a multinational non-6
violent peace force; 7
(3) provide for exchanges between individuals of 8
the United States and other nations that are endeav-9
oring to develop domestic and international peace- 10
based initiatives; and 11
(4) disseminate applicable policies and research 12
in consultation with— 13
(A) the Department of State; 14
(B) the Department of Labor; 15
(C) the Peace Corps; 16
(D) the United States Institute of Peace; 17
and 18
(E) any other applicable entities. 19
(c) G
RANTS.—The Assistant Secretary for Inter-20
national Peacebuilding Activities shall establish a grant 21
program to be known as the International Cultural Diplo-22
macy for Peace grant program under which the Secretary 23
shall make grants to pre-kindergarten schools, elementary 24
schools, secondary schools, institutions of higher edu-25
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cation, nonprofit organizations, and nongovernmental or-1
ganizations for the purpose of developing international 2
cultural exchanges, including exchanges related to the 3
arts, sports, science, and other academic disciplines, that 4
promote diplomacy and cultural understanding between 5
the United States and other nations. 6
SEC. 107. OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR PEACE. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 8
an Office of Technology for Peace, the head of which shall 9
be the Assistant Secretary for Technology for Peace. The 10
Assistant Secretary for Technology for Peace shall carry 11
out those functions in the Department affecting the 12
awareness, study, ethical implications and impact of evolv-13
ing existing technologies and developing new technologies, 14
including artificial intelligence, mobile technologies, social 15
media, drones, and data science and information, on the 16
creation and maintenance of domestic and international 17
peace, and disseminate applicable policies and research in 18
consultation with appropriate entities of the Department 19
of State. 20
(b) G
RANTS.—The Assistant Secretary for Tech-21
nology for Peace shall make grants for the research and 22
development of technologies in transportation, commu-23
nications, agriculture, medicine, and energy that— 24
(1) are nonviolent in application; 25
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(2) encourage the conservation and sustain-1
ability of natural resources, including air, water, 2
land, in order to prevent future conflicts regarding 3
scarce resources due to overuse or natural or 4
human-caused disasters, including climate change 5
and pandemics; and 6
(3) promote a green, peaceful economy. 7
SEC. 108. OFFICE OF ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT. 8
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 9
an Office of Arms Control and Disarmament, the head 10
of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Arms Control 11
and Disarmament. The Assistant Secretary for Arms Con-12
trol and Disarmament shall carry out those functions in 13
the Department affecting arms control programs and 14
arms limitation agreements. 15
(b) R
ESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 16
Arms Control and Disarmament shall— 17
(1) advise the Secretary on interagency discus-18
sions and international negotiations, including dis-19
cussions involving the United Nations, the Secretary 20
of State, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the 21
Secretary of Defense, regarding the increase or re-22
duction and elimination of weapons of mass destruc-23
tion throughout the world, including the dismantling 24
of such weapons and the safe and secure storage of 25
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materials related thereto and efforts to limit or cease 1
development, testing, manufacture or possession of 2
nuclear weapons or threats to use them or to allow 3
any nuclear arms to be stationed in the territory of 4
any nation; 5
(2) assist nations, international agencies, and 6
nongovernmental organizations in assessing the loca-7
tions of the buildup of nuclear arms and other weap-8
ons of mass destruction; 9
(3) develop nonviolent strategies to prevent and 10
deter testing or use of offensive or defensive nuclear 11
weapons, weaponized drones, assault weapons, and 12
other weapons of mass destruction, whether based 13
on land, underground, air, sea, or in space; 14
(4) serve as a depository for copies of all con-15
tracts, agreements, and treaties that address the re-16
duction and elimination of nuclear weapons and 17
other weapons of mass destruction, and the protec-18
tion of space from militarization; 19
(5) provide technical support and legal assist-20
ance for the implementation of such contracts, 21
agreements, and treaties; 22
(6) disseminate applicable policies and research 23
in consultation with the Department of State and 24
the Department of Commerce; and 25
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(7) address and support nuclear waste cleanup 1
at nuclear test sites, nuclear research facilities and 2
laboratories, Superfund Sites of former and present 3
military bases in the United States and abroad and 4
at lands, in waters, and in the air adjacent to old 5
and new nuclear reactors and nuclear-contaminated 6
sites. 7
SEC. 109. OFFICE OF PEACEBUILDING INFORMATION AND 8
RESEARCH. 9
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 10
an Office of Peacebuilding Information and Research, the 11
head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for 12
Peacebuilding Information and Research. The Assistant 13
Secretary for Peacebuilding Information and Research 14
shall carry out those functions in the Department affect-15
ing research and analysis relating to creating, initiating, 16
and modeling approaches to peaceful coexistence and non-17
violent conflict resolution and shall make this information 18
available to Congress, the public, and other interested en-19
tities on an ongoing basis. 20
(b) R
ESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 21
Peacebuilding Information and Research shall— 22
(1) commission or compile studies on the im-23
pact of war, mass shootings, police violence and 24
other types of violence, especially on the physical 25
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and mental condition of children (using the 10-point 1
anti-war agenda in the United Nations Children’s 2
Fund report, State of the World’s Children 1996, as 3
a guide) that shall include the study of the effect of 4
war on the environment and public health; 5
(2) commission or compile studies on the im-6
pact of war and other types of violence on soldiers, 7
veterans and civilians; 8
(3) commission or compile studies on the effect 9
of war and other types of violence on the environ-10
ment, public health, the economy, and national secu-11
rity; 12
(4) commission or compile studies on the im-13
pact of violence, racism and inequality on such con-14
ditions of peace as health care, employment, edu-15
cation, economic equity, food security, voting rights, 16
housing, justice, and rule of law; 17
(5) compile information on effective community 18
peacebuilding activities and disseminate such infor-19
mation to local governments and nongovernmental 20
organizations in the United States and abroad; 21
(6) commission or compile research on the ef-22
fect of violence in the media, including the use of 23
untruths, misinformation and false information and 24
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make such reports available to Congress and the 1
public annually; 2
(7) commission or compile research on the num-3
ber and circumstances of deaths caused by law en-4
forcement using guns or other weapons, devices or 5
methods, the number and circumstances of deaths to 6
law enforcement officials caused by guns or other 7
weapons, devices or methods, the effects of gun vio-8
lence in the United States, and make such reports 9
available to Congress and the public annually; 10
(8) commission or compile research on the ef-11
fect of teaching nonviolent conflict resolution skills 12
and practices and social emotional education in 13
schools and disseminate such information to edu-14
cational institutions, Congress and the public annu-15
ally; 16
(9) commission or compile any other such re-17
search that will foster understanding of the root 18
causes of violence, the root conditions of peace, and 19
policies and practices to promote a culture of peace; 20
(10) publish a monthly journal of the activities 21
of the Department and encourage scholarly partici-22
pation; 23
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(11) sponsor conferences throughout the United 1
States to create awareness of the work of the De-2
partment; 3
(12) make available to the public reports, stud-4
ies, and compiled research described in this Act; and 5
(13) where applicable, work to carry out the re-6
sponsibilities under this subsection in consultation 7
with the United States Institute of Peace and other 8
governmental and nongovernmental organizations, 9
including— 10
(A) the Department of Health and Human 11
Services; 12
(B) the Department of Justice; and 13
(C) the Department of State. 14
SEC. 110. OFFICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC 15
RIGHTS. 16
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 17
an Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights, the 18
head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Human 19
Rights and Economic Rights. The Assistant Secretary for 20
Human Rights and Economic Rights shall carry out those 21
functions in the Department that support the principles 22
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 23
by the General Assembly of the United Nations on Decem-24
ber 10, 1948. 25
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(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Assistant Secretary for 1
Human Rights and Economic Rights shall— 2
(1) assist the Secretary, in consultation with 3
the Secretary of State, in furthering the incorpora-4
tion of the principles of human rights, as enunciated 5
in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, into 6
all agreements between the United States and other 7
nations to help prevent and reduce the causes of vio-8
lence; 9
(2) consult with the Secretary of State, the 10
United Nations, the Atrocities Prevention Board of 11
the White House, the Department of Justice, and 12
other similarly concerned governmental and non-13
governmental organizations to gather information on 14
and document domestic and international human 15
rights abuses, including genocide, torture, State exe-16
cutions, police brutality, detention for profit, caging 17
of children and other individuals, murder of un-18
armed civilians, solitary confinement (especially 19
among children), human trafficking, child soldiers, 20
child labor, and slave labor and recommend to the 21
Secretary nonviolent responses to promote aware-22
ness, understanding, and correction of abuses; 23
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(3) make such information available to other 1
governmental and nongovernmental organizations in 2
order to facilitate nonviolent conflict resolution; 3
(4) provide trained observers to work with non-4
governmental organizations for purposes of creating 5
a climate conducive to the respect for human rights; 6
(5) conduct economic analyses of the scarcity of 7
human and natural resources as a source of conflict 8
and make recommendations to the Secretary for 9
nonviolent prevention of such scarcity, nonviolent 10
intervention in case of such scarcity, and the devel-11
opment of programs to assist people facing such 12
scarcity, whether due to armed conflict, greed, 13
misdistribution of resources, overuse or other human 14
causes, including climate disruption, or natural 15
causes; 16
(6) conduct economic analyses of the impact of 17
violence within and among nations as a source of 18
human displacement and criminalization, vilification, 19
victimization and mistreatment of those fleeing their 20
homes to seek better and safer lives and make rec-21
ommendations to the Secretary for nonviolent solu-22
tions and development of programs to assist people 23
facing such conditions; 24
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(7) assist the Secretary, in consultation with 1
the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the 2
Treasury, in developing strategies regarding the sus-3
tainability and the management of the distribution 4
of funds from international agencies, the conditions 5
regarding the receipt of such funds, and the impact 6
of those conditions on the peace and stability of the 7
recipient nations; 8
(8) assist the Secretary, in consultation with 9
the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Labor, 10
in developing strategies to promote full compliance 11
with domestic and international labor rights law; 12
(9) conduct policy analysis to ensure that the 13
international development investments of the United 14
States positively impact the peace and stability of 15
the recipient country; and 16
(10) disseminate policies and research in con-17
sultation with appropriate entities of the Depart-18
ment of State. 19
SEC. 111. INTERGOVERNMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON 20
PEACE. 21
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There shall be in the Department 22
an advisory committee known as the Intergovernmental 23
Advisory Council on Peace (in this section referred to as 24
the ‘‘Council’’). The Council shall provide assistance and 25
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make recommendations to the President and the Secretary 1
concerning intergovernmental policies relating to peace 2
and nonviolent conflict resolution. 3
(b) R
ESPONSIBILITIES.—The Council shall— 4
(1) provide a forum for representatives of inter-5
national bodies, the Federal Government, Tribal gov-6
ernments, and State and local governments to dis-7
cuss peace issues, including practices, traditions and 8
policies that promote peacebuilding and crises and 9
wellness issues; 10
(2) promote better intergovernmental relations 11
and offer professional mediation services to amelio-12
rate and resolve intergovernmental and 13
intragovernmental conflict as needed, including 14
elimination of inflammatory rhetoric; and 15
(3) submit biennially, or more frequently if de-16
termined necessary by the Council, a report to the 17
President, the Secretary, and Congress reviewing the 18
impact of Federal peace activities on the Federal 19
Government and on State and local governments. 20
(c) M
EMBERSHIP.—The Secretary shall appoint the 21
members of the Council. 22
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SEC. 112. FEDERAL INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON PEACE. 1
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established a Fed-2
eral Interagency Committee on Peace (in this section re-3
ferred to as the ‘‘Committee’’). The Committee shall— 4
(1) assist the Secretary in providing a mecha-5
nism to assure that the procedures and actions of 6
the Department and other Federal agencies are fully 7
coordinated; and 8
(2) study and make recommendations for assur-9
ing effective coordination of Federal programs, poli-10
cies, and administrative practices affecting peace, 11
peacebuilding and violence prevention, and wellness. 12
(b) M
EMBERSHIP.—The Secretary shall appoint the 13
members of the Committee. 14
SEC. 113. STAFF. 15
The Secretary may appoint and fix the compensation 16
of such employees as may be necessary to carry out the 17
functions of the Secretary and the Department. Except 18
as otherwise provided by law, such employees shall be ap-19
pointed in accordance with applicable laws and the com-20
pensation of such employees fixed in accordance with title 21
5, United States Code. 22
SEC. 114. CONSULTATION REQUIRED. 23
(a) C
ONSULTATION INCASES OFCONFLICT ANDVIO-24
LENCEPREVENTION.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—In any case in which a con-1
flict between the United States and any other gov-2
ernment or entity is foreseeable, imminent, or occur-3
ring, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 4
State shall consult with the Secretary of 5
Peacebuilding concerning violence prevention, non-6
violent means of conflict resolution, and 7
peacebuilding. 8
(2) D
IPLOMATIC INITIATIVES.—In any case in 9
which a conflict described in paragraph (1) is ongo-10
ing or recently concluded, the Secretary shall con-11
duct an independent study of diplomatic initiatives 12
undertaken by the United States and other parties 13
to such conflict. 14
(3) I
NITIATIVE ASSESSMENT .—In any case in 15
which a conflict described in paragraph (1) has re-16
cently concluded, the Secretary shall assess the ef-17
fectiveness of any initiatives in ending such conflict. 18
(4) C
ONSULTATION PROCESS .—The Secretary 19
shall establish a formal process of consultation in a 20
timely manner with the Secretary of State, the Sec-21
retary of Defense, and the National Security Coun-22
cil— 23
(A) prior to the initiation of policies or 24
withdrawal of resources that may lead to vio-25
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lence and of any armed conflict between the 1
United States and any other country; and 2
(B) for any matter involving— 3
(i) the use of Department of Defense 4
personnel within the United States; or 5
(ii) the proposed or actual distribution 6
of equipment of the Department of De-7
fense to local or State law enforcement en-8
tities or to other individuals or entities. 9
(b) C
ONSULTATION IN DRAFTINGTREATIES AND 10
A
GREEMENTS.—The head of each appropriate Federal 11
agency shall consult with the Secretary in drafting treaties 12
and peace agreements. 13
SEC. 115. COLLABORATION. 14
The Secretary shall, for the greatest effectiveness in 15
promoting peace and peacebuilding, collaborate with other 16
Federal agencies, applicable experts, nongovernmental or-17
ganization stakeholders, appropriate non-profit organiza-18
tion stakeholders and State, Tribal, and local leaders and 19
stakeholders regarding all related programs in all Federal 20
agencies. The collaboration shall include and prioritize 21
those who are most impacted by the programs for the pur-22
pose implementing or updating such programs and for the 23
purpose of evaluating the effectiveness and impacts of 24
such programs. 25
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TITLE II—OTHER MATTERS 1
SEC. 201. LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SEC-2
RETARY. 3
Not later than 1 year after the date of the appoint-4
ment of the first Secretary, the Secretary shall prepare 5
and submit to Congress proposed legislation containing 6
any necessary and appropriate amendments to the laws 7
of the United States to carry out the purposes of this Act. 8
SEC. 202. PEACE DAYS. 9
The Secretary shall encourage citizens to observe and 10
celebrate the blessings of peace and endeavor to create 11
peace on Peace Days. Such days shall include discussions 12
of the professional activities and the achievements in the 13
lives of peacemakers. 14
SEC. 203. DEFINITIONS. 15
In this Act: 16
(1) D
EPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 17
means the Department of Peacebuilding established 18
under section 101(a). 19
(2) ESEA
TERMS.—The terms ‘‘elementary 20
school’’, ‘‘secondary school’’, and ‘‘State educational 21
agency’’ have the meaning given those terms in sec-22
tion 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-23
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 24
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(3) FEDERAL AGENCY .—The term ‘‘Federal 1
agency’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘agency’’ 2
in section 551(1) of title 5, United States Code. 3
(4) I
NSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .—The 4
term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 5
meaning given that term in section 101 of the High-6
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 7
(5) N
ONPROFIT ORGANIZATION .—The term 8
‘‘nonprofit organization’’ means an entity that— 9
(A) is described in section 501(c)(3) of the 10
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 11
501(c)(3)); and 12
(B) is exempt from tax under section 13
501(a) of such Code. 14
(6) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 15
the Secretary of Peacebuilding appointed under sec-16
tion 101(b). 17
SEC. 204. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 18
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-19
priated to carry out this Act such sums as may be nec-20
essary. 21
(b) L
IMITATION ON USE OFFUNDS.—Of the 22
amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (a), at least 23
85 percent shall be used for domestic peace programs, in-24
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grams. 2
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