Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 796: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the actions which have been taken to implement UN Resolution A/RES/53/243; and the initiatives the Government is undertaking to make Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World more visible. [10993/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In the context of the UN resolution referred to by the Deputy, my Department funded the New Releases Project. This project, which addressed themes related to the UN Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, was conducted on a North-South basis. In 2003, the project held creative medium competitions for secondary and primary schools, North and South. The project culminated by sending six secondary students, three from the North and three from the South on a visit to the UN in New York for a week in December 2003. My Department also funds, on an on-going basis, several projects in a North-South context which promote peace and reconciliation.