Mayors for Peace

Mr Yasuyoshi Komizo [ja], Secretary General of Mayors for Peace Secretariat, Hiroshima (left) and Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (2017)

Mayors for Peace (founded as The World Conference of Mayors for Peace through Inter-city Solidarity, renamed in 2001[1]) is an international organization of cities dedicated to the promotion of peace that was established in 1982 at the initiative of then Mayor of Hiroshima Takeshi Araki, in response to the deaths of around 140,000 people due to the atomic bombing of the city on August 6, 1945.

The current mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, is the President of the organization as of his April 2011 inauguration.

Mayors for Peace was started in Japan, and since then Mayors throughout the World have signed on. When Mayors sign on, it means they support the commencement of negotiations towards the elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2020.

In August 2023, Mayors for Peace counted over 8,200 member cities in 166 countries and territories around the world.[2]

  1. ^ Peace, Mayors for (2022-05-09). "Mayors for Peace". Mayors for Peace. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
  2. ^ Peace, Mayors for (2022-05-09). "List of Member Cities". Mayors for Peace. Retrieved 2023-08-13.