Minnesota Session Laws - 1984, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1984 

                       RESOLUTION 12-S.F.No. 1243 
 A resolution memorializing the President and Congress 
to establish a National Academy of Peace and Conflict 
Resolution. 
    WHEREAS, people throughout Minnesota are concerned about 
armed conflict between nations and within our society that is 
increasing at an alarming rate; and 
    WHEREAS, recent conflicts throughout the world make it 
necessary to develop new and creative means of managing conflict 
before it escalates into violence, so that the greatest 
challenge facing the people of this nation is the development of 
new techniques to resolve and prevent violent conflict; and 
    WHEREAS, many potentially destructive conflicts among 
nations and peoples have been resolved constructively and with 
cost efficiency at the international, national, and community 
levels through proper use of such techniques as negotiation, 
conciliation, mediation, and arbitration; and 
    WHEREAS, the establishment of an academy is an appropriate 
investment by the people of this nation to promote international 
peace and to resolve conflicts among nations without recourse to 
violence; NOW, THEREFORE, 
    BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota 
that Congress should speedily enact legislation to establish a 
National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution to serve the 
people and government by providing research, training, and 
information services on international peace and peace making. 
    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the 
State of Minnesota is directed to transmit certified copies of 
this memorial to the President of the United States, the 
President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the 
Speaker and the Chief Clerk of the United States House of 
Representatives and to Minnesota's Senators and Representatives 
in Congress. 
    Approved April 25, 1984