Mayors for Peace representative Pol Dhuyvetter participated in a 3-day event “From Genocide into Peace” at the invitation of the Governorate of Sulymanyah, the Mayor of Halabja and the Regional Government of Kurdistan. All events took place in the Region of Kurdistan, Iraq and marked the 20th anniversary of the gas attacks on the city of Halabja.

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Since 2006, the annual “Peace tour” of the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (SCWVS) has included in their agenda the presentation of the Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign to Iranian mayors. This tour visits Iranian towns along the border with Iraq which were targeted by chemical weapons during the 1980’s.

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In December 2008 membership recruitment started one month after municipal elections. Greenpeace Israel sent most Israeli Mayors a letter from the Mayor of Hiroshima accompanied with a translation in Hebrew.

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This has been a revolutionary year for Mayors for Peace in Japan. When Mayors for Peace was first formed in 1982, the decision was made to keep it an “international” organization. Thus, despite widespread support in Japan, the only two Japanese members were Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the secretariat was based in Hiroshima. (Nagasaki still manages a separate Council of Nuclear-Free Local Authorities for Japanese cities.)

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