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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

studies are essential to further development of techniques to
promote peaceful resolution of international conflict, and the
peacemaking activities of people in such institutions,
government, private enterprise, and voluntary associations can be
strengthened by a national institution devoted to international
peace research, education and training, and information services;
and

WHEREAS, The President and the Congress of the United States
recognized a need for federal leadership to expand and support
the existing international peace and conflict resolution efforts
of the Nation and to develop new comprehensive peace education
and training programs, basic and applied research projects, and
programs providing peace information; and

WHEREAS, The Commission on Proposals for the National
Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution, created by the
Education Amendments of 1978, recommended establishing an academy
as a highly desirable investment to further the Nation's interest
in promoting international peace; and

WHEREAS, The President and the Congress of the United States
created the United States Institute of Peace to strengthen and
symbolize the fruitful relation between the world of learning and
the world of public affairs, and to enlarge the capacity of the
Nation to promote the peaceful resolution of international
conflicts; and

WHEREAS, The establishment of the headquarters of the United
States Institute of Peace in the State of Maryland would be an
appropriate investment by the people of this Nation to advance
the history, science, art, and practice of international peace
and resolution of conflicts among nations without the use of
violence; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
Governor and the Congressional Delegation of the State of
Maryland are requested to encourage the President of the United
States and Board of Directors of the United States Institute of
Peace to establish the headquarters of the United States
Institute of Peace in the State of Maryland; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be forwarded by the
Department of Legislative Reference to the Honorable Harry
Hughes, Governor of Maryland and the Maryland Congressional
Delegation: Senators Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. and Paul S.
Sarbanes, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510; and
Representatives Royden P. Dyson, Helen Delich Bentley, Barbara A.
Mikulski, Marjorie S. Holt, Steny H. Hoyer, Beverly B. Byron,
Parren J. Mitchell, and Michael D. Barnes, House Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20515.

Signed May 21, 1985.