United Nations Peace Messenger Cities
United Nations Peace Messenger Cities are cities around the world that have volunteered for an initiative sponsored by the United Nations to promote peace and understanding between nations.
The movement began in the International Year of Peace, 1986, when 62 cities were chosen from among thousands. Representatives of these 62 cities met on 7 and 8 September 1988 at Verdun, to participate:
in the building of a world less violent and more humane, a world of tolerance and of mutual respect to enable the requirements of peace based on justice and human rights to be better understood.
The International Association of Peace Messenger Cities was established in 1988 and now administers the programme according to the statute of the Association and criteria for membership.
Member cities of the Association meet twice a year with the aim of exchanging programmes, ideas and experience in cities around the globe.
Their website, http://www.iapmc.org, is active after the General Assembly which was held in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia.
Member cities
As of 2010, the list of Peace Messenger Cities is:
Joined in 1987
- Abidjan
- Arnhem
- Assisi
- Atlanta
- Bangui
- Beijing
- Brighton & Hove
- Buenos Aires
- Chicago
- Como
- Concord
- Dakar
- Delphi
- Dhaka
- Florence
- Geneva
- Hammam-Lif
- Helsinki
- Hiroshima
- Kiev
- Copenhagen
- Kragujevac
- L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
- La Paz
- La Plaine sur Mer (a suburb of Nantes)
- Lima
- Lomé
- Madrid
- Maputo
- Marrakech
- Marzabotto
- Melbourne
- Minsk
- Moscow
- Nagasaki
- New Delhi
- New Haven
- Pori
- Prague
- Ravenna
- Rijswijk
- Rome
- San Francisco
- San José, Costa Rica
- Saint Petersburg
- Sheffield
- Sochi
- Split
- Stockholm
- Tblisi
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- Verdun
- Villa el Salvador
- Volgograd
- Warsaw
- Vienna
- Wollongong
- Yokohama
Joined in 1988
Joined in 1989
Joined in 1990
Joined in 1991
- Bandung
- Coventry
- Quito
- Tokyo
- Vladivostok