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The International Association of Peace Messenger Cities was established to recognize and encourage the role and responsibility cities have in creating a culture of peace.

The IAPMC had its first meeting in Verdun France in 1988. It was  formalized at a General Assembly meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, USA in 1990. By laws it was approved in Marrakech, Morocco in 1991.

An organization was born out of United Nations General Assembly designation as Peace Messengers. It firmly believes that municipal authorities have profound responsibility to assume an active, creative role in establishing a Culture of Peace within their borders.

The following member cities represent the Executive Board of IAPMC:

Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
Cambridge (USA)
Geneva (Switzerland)
Hiroshima (Japan)
Krusevac (Serbia)
Lome (Togo)
Milan (Italy)
Morphou (Cyprus)
New Haven (USA)
Plonsk (Poland)
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Slovenj Gradec (Slovenia)
Suwon (Korea)
Vancouver (Canada)
Volgograd (Russian Federation)
Yokohama (Japan)

Our representatives are:

City of New Haven, CT (United States), Mr. Alfred L. Marder, President of IAPMC, (email)
City of Geneva (Switzerland), Vice-President of IAPMC (email)
City of Yokohama (Japan), Vice-President of IAPMC (email)
City of Slovenj Gradec (Slovenia), Mr. Matjaz Zanoskar, Mayor, Secretary General of IAPMC (email)
                                                     Mr. Dusan Stojanovic, Deputy-Secretary General of IAPMC (email)

New member cities can apply for membership, providing they fulfil and comply with the membership criteria, either by contacting the officials (president or secretary-general) or any of the member cities which can propose the new membership at the General Assembly.   

 

 


 
4/12/2010

Press Release - Oswiecim Appeal
Mayor Janusz Marszalek of Oswiecim, Poland, known throughout the world as the site of the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, has called upon the world’s Head of States, in the name of the one and a half million victims who perished in the furnaces, to use the approaching United Nations’ Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May to negotiate steps for a convention for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
2/10/2010 / New York

Extraordinary IAPMC Executive Board Meeting, New York (April 29 - May 3, 2010)
The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.
@ IAPMC 2005