It calls for greater investment in schools-based programmes to encourage global thinking, including a young global enterprise scheme.
Shakira joined the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon at the event to encourage global leaders to invest in early childhood development, as that is when brain development is the most intense, according to UNICEF.
If communities and economies cannot cope with current levels of migration, we must do more to encourage global development, as that is the only way that the migratory millions will be persuaded to seek their future at home.
And partly because 2012 will encourage global interest in every part of what we do as a country, including the arts, for many years either side of the event.
In order to encourage global student participation, special funds have been allocated to provide full registration tuition and travel support for at least one student (pending qualified applicants) from each the following regions: South/Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
The award, previously known as the Jesse Owens Global Award for Peace, is given every two years by the International Amateur Athletic Union to an individual with a sports background who has helped foster international attention on the potential of sports to inspire and encourage global amity.
