A/HRC/39/31 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 31 July 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-ninth session 10–28 September 2018 Agenda items 2 and 3 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Summary of the intersessional workshop on the right to peace Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary In its resolution 35/4, the Human Rights Council decided to convene a half-day intersessional workshop to discuss the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Peace and requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a report on the workshop, in the form of a summary, to the Council at its thirty-ninth session. The present report provides a summary of the discussions at the workshop, which was held in Geneva on 14 June 2018. At the workshop, the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, six panellists and other participants made recommendations, notably on possible means to build peace within and between societies pursuant to article 2 of the Declaration on the Right to Peace, on sustainable measures in line with article 3 of the Declaration and on educating for peace in accordance with article 4. GE.18-12633(E) 