Positive Ecology
The transformation to sustainability and/as ways to happiness
What seems to be heard most often are the environmentalists predicting doom, and the deniers and delayers arguing that change would hurt us, personally and economically.Recently, we see an emergent understanding that a transformation to sustainability is actually not just about hard choices for "saving the planet," but about ways in which human happiness can ...learn more
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Created: Nov 23, 2007
Updated: Oct 25, 2009
Membership: Open
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2777 member cities in 134 countries & regions
Mission
The Mayors for Peace is designed to build solidarity and facilitate coordination among the cities that support the Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Its primary goal is to work internationally to raise consciousness regarding nuclear weapons abolition. It is also formally committed to pursuing lasting world peace by working to address starvation, poverty, refugee welfare, human rights abuses, environmental destruction, and other problems that threaten peaceful coexistence.About
What is the Mayors for Peace?In August 1945, atomic bombs instantaneously reduced the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to rubble, taking hundreds of thousands of precious lives. Today, more than fifty years after the war, thousands of citizens still suffer the devastating aftereffects of radiation and unfathomable emotional pain. To prevent any repetition of the A-bomb tragedy, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have continually sought to tell the world about the inhumane cruelty of nuclear weapons and have consistently urged that nuclear weapons be abolished.
On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This proposal offered cities a way to transcend national borders and work together to press for nuclear abolition. Subsequently, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on mayors around the world to support this program.
The Mayors for Peace is composed of cities around the world that have formally expressed support for the program Mayor Araki announced in 1982. As of March 2, 2009, membership stood at 2,777 cities in 134 countries and regions. In March 1990, the Mayors Conference was officially registered as a UN NGO related to the Department of Public Information. In May 1991, it became a Category II NGO(currently called a NGO in "Special Consultative Status") registered with the Economic and Social Council.
Major Activities
Cities Appeal supporting the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol and a resolution at the NPT Review Conference 2010
Mayors for Peace announced the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, a roadmap to a nuclear-weapon-free world by 2020, at the NPT PrepCom in Geneva in April 2008.
This Protocol would supplement the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and we intend for it to be adopted by the NPT Reveiw Conference in 2010. To achieve this goal, we are also promoting a Cities Appeal, a petition to be signed by member mayors or other elected officials in support of our lobbying activities at the UN.
URL: http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/english/citiesappeal.pdf
Cities Are Not Targets (CANT) project Petition Drive
Sending a message to nuclear-weapon states that cities are not willing to be targeted by nuclear weapons, cities around the world are pointing to the inhumanity and illegality of such targeting, and have asked nuclear-weapon states for assurances that they will not be attacked.
URL: https://www.ssl-hiroins.city.hiroshima.jp/pcf/en/form.htm
