Believing that all inhabitants of member states should be able to benefit from the rights they possess (including the right to development), yet
Recognising that all sapient rights are put in danger wherever unnecessary armed conflict occurs, and
Therefore seeking to disincentivise such conflict through means such as celebration, education and humanitarian aid regulation...
The General Assembly enacts as follows.
- Definitions:In this resolution:
- "development" means those non-violent acts taken with respect for sapient dignity which aim towards facilitating the achievement of all sapient rights,
- "sustainable development" means development which also aims towards the long-term protection of the natural environment or the reduction of unnecessary armed conflict, and
- "unnecessary armed conflict" means organised armed conflict that neither serves to protect a member state from attack nor is necessary to prevent practices (such as terrorism, genocide, and other crimes against humanity) that threaten the achievement of all sapient rights.
- The right to development: Members shall allow their inhabitants to engage in and benefit from development (including, in particular, sustainable development).
- Promotion of non-aggression: All members are encouraged to avoid unnecessary armed conflict.
- Aid for peace: Donors of humanitarian aid within member states shall not tie its use to the perpetuation of unnecessary armed conflict. Recipients of humanitarian aid within member states shall not use it to perpetuate unnecessary armed conflict, and are further urged to use it for its specified purpose and for the benefit of as many of their inhabitants as possible.
- Education: Members are strongly urged to educate all of their inhabitants about the relationship between peace, sustainable development, and sapient rights, and the important role that each of these factors play in helping to protect the other two.
- Peace Prize:The World Assembly Peace Prize (hereinafter the Prize) is established. To that effect, the WA Commission on Human Rights is tasked with:
- receiving nominations for the Prize from anyone who works as a head of state or government, legislator, or professor in any member state, in addition to any leaders of member state delegations to the World Assembly; and disregarding nominations with the effect of such individuals nominating themselves, the entity who directly employs them or any other person currently being employed by that entity for the Prize,
- awarding the Prize each year to that person or group of people resident in any member state who has been nominated in accordance with Article f(i) (although nothing in this section requires that all such nominees be awarded the Prize),
- basing its decision to award the Prize to any given person or group solely on whether, in its view, they have:
- demonstrably contributed more than any other such person or group in the previous year to the resolution or prevention of major conflicts between and within nations which involved or could have realistically involved large-scale acts of violence,
- made such contributions while respecting all sapient rights protected by international law, as well as avoiding violence and the perpetuation of war crimes, and
- worked towards the universal, non-violent promotion and achievement of all sapient rights while doing so,
- rewarding (each of) the winner(s) of the Prize in each year with a gold-plated silver medal weighing one ounce and measuring one-and-a-half inches in diameter, which shall have on its obverse the words "WA PEACE PRIZE - WITH PEACE COMES FREEDOM" surrounding the logo of the World Assembly, and on its reverse nothing, and
- rescinding the status of any Prize winner as such (which may include ordering the return of any rewards bestowed upon them under Article f(iv) to it) if, in its view, they have carried out acts that are contrary to the intentions of Article f(iii).
Co-authored by:
Morover and
Honeydewistania/
