A/RES/73/90. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2018

• Resolution Number: A/RES/73/90
• Year: 2018
• Session: 73rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /73/ 90

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

18 D ecember 2018

18-214 03 (E) 201218

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Seventy -third sess ion

Agen da item 51

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 7 December 2018

[on th e report of the Spe cial Polit ical and Decoloni zation Com mittee

(Four th Co mmittee) (A/73/47 0)]

73/90. Univer sity for Peac e

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g it s resol ution 7 0/79 of 9 Decem ber 201 5, in which it recalle d that, in

its resolut ion 34 /111 of 14 Dece mber 1 979, i t had approv ed the idea of est ablishin g

the Unive rsity for Peace as a sp ecialize d in ternatio nal c entre for highe r ed ucation,

rese arch and the dis seminati on of kn owledge specifi cally ai med at tr aining and

educ ation for peace a nd its un iversal promotio n within the Unit ed Nati ons syste m, as

well as all p recedin g resolu tions on this it em,

Reca lling also that , in its reso lution 35/ 55 of 5 Decembe r 19 80, the General

Asse mbly app roved t he estab lishment of the Universi ty for P eace in conformi ty with

the Inte rnationa l Agreeme nt for the E stablish ment of the U niver sity fo r Peace ,

cont ained in the ann ex to th at resol ution,

Taking i nto acco unt tha t in 2020 the Univ ersity will celeb rate 40 years of

exec uting th e manda te given to it by the Ge neral Asse mbly of educati ng and t raining

leade rs for p eace,

Reco gniz ing the i mporta nt an d va ried activit ies c arried out by the Univers ity

duri ng the perio d from 2015 to 2 018 wi th the valua ble a ssistanc e and contri butions

of Govern ments, foundat ions a nd no n-gove rnmenta l organ izations , in particu lar th e

prog ress mad e in t he furth er dev elopment and i mplement ation o f the a cademic

prog ramme a nd in ex panding its cov erage in various region s of the world,

Noti ng with apprec iation that t he Uni versity has r eaffirme d its commit ment to

acad emic exce llence thr oughout i ts doctora l and maste r’s degr ee progra mmes in are as

relat ed to peac e stu dies, securit y and the envir onment, whic h inc lude two m aster ’s

degr ee progr ammes t aught in Spanish ,

Noti ng with appre ciation also that t he maj ority of the stude nts an d alum ni are

wome n, and acknowl edging the fa ct that women play a critical role a s peaceb uilders

at th e intern ational, nation al and l ocal lev els,