A/HRC/43/22 62. As noted above, the Secretary-General has emphasized that divergent school curricula and conflicting and divisive narratives about the past remain serious obstacles to reconciliation and peaceful coexistence in Cyprus. He encouraged the leaders to facilitate island-wide student exchanges to promote peace education at all levels, and to pursue the joint recommendations made by the bicommunal Technical Committee on Education in November 2017 (S/2019/562, para. 53). In its resolution 2483 (2019), the Security Council further called upon the leaders to address impediments to peace in school materials, including text books, as a contribution to trust-building between the communities. 63. The Imagine project, developed by the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research under the auspices of the Technical Committee on Education, continued its educational programme on anti-racism and for a culture of peace. The project has now run for two academic years and has brought together 3,665 students and 397 teachers from over 100 schools from both communities. During the second year, the project expanded its scope to work across the island and introduced study visits and training of teachers from the two communities. A call for applications was launched for the 2019/20 academic year, which will introduce new activities such as the development of educational materials that promote peacebuilding and intercultural dialogue. 41 The Secretary-General’s good offices mission continued to provide facilitation to the Technical Committee on Education and support to the Imagine project. 64. UNFICYP continued to provide logistical support and outreach to the Greek Cypriot primary and secondary school on the Karpas Peninsula. For the school year starting in September 2019, the Turkish Cypriot authorities rejected the reappointment of one Greek Cypriot nursery teacher, as well as the appointment of two new Greek Cypriot teachers, who had been nominated to work at the schools. H. Gender perspective 65. Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security calls on all actors involved, when negotiating and implementing peace agreements, to adopt a gender perspective, including (a) the special needs of women and girls during repatriation and resettlement and for rehabilitation, reintegration and post-conflict reconstruction; (b) measures that support local women’s peace initiatives and indigenous processes for conflict resolution, and involve women in all the implementation mechanisms of the peace agreements; and (c) measures that ensure the protection of and respect for human rights of women and girls, particularly as they relate to the Constitution, the electoral system, the police and the judiciary. Additionally, Sustainable Development Goal 5 calls for gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, including ending all forms of discrimination and ensuring women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life. 66. Regarding Cyprus, in its resolution 2453 (2019), the Security Council stressed the importance of the full and effective participation of civil society and women in particular at all stages of the peace process, and expected their involvement in the development and implementation of post-conflict strategies for sustainable peace, including by revitalizing the Gender Committee. It called upon the United Nations to take forward, within existing resources, the Secretary-General’s proposal to conduct a gender-sensitive socioeconomic impact assessment. During the reporting period, the Secretary-General’s good offices mission has taken concrete steps to advance this assessment, which will include a focus on the gender-differentiated impact of a settlement and make specific social policy recommendations on ways to ensure that a settlement can more effectively benefit both men and women (S/2019/883, para. 31). 67. In resolution 2483 (2019), the Security Council called upon the two leaders to increase their support and ensure a meaningful role for civil society engagement in peace 41 See www.ahdr.info. 13