The forum is consistent with UNESCO's idea to proclaim the first decade of the 21st century as International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. Its delegates represented governmental and non-governmental organizations from southern Russia (Daghestan, Chechnya, and the Krasnodar and the Stavropol regions), as well as from former Soviet republics in the Transcaucasia, such as Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In a resolution adopted at the conference, they stressed the need to promote the revival in the Caucasus of such traditional values as respect for women and the elderly, thereby fostering inter-ethnic and inter-family dialogue. With the Caucasus being on the frontline of the war against global terrorism, they called on all anti-terror forces to join hands in countering the evil.
The conference participants approached the UNESCO Commission for UNESCO Affairs with a request that the Derbent Socio-Psychological Rehabilitation Center should be granted interregional status and an international resource center be established on its basis.
