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BETWEEN AUGUST 4TH AND lOTH, THE CITIES OF HIROSHIMA ANDNagasaki sponsored the First World Conference of Mayors for Peacethrough Inter-City Solidarity. CID's President, Michael Shuman, attendedthe conference as a representative of the mayor of Palo Alto. WhenShuman returned, he prepared this highly personal chronicle of what theconference was like-what the mayors experienced, what they discussed, and how CID managed to nudge the conference to "institutionalize" itself. The report is long, involved, and sometimes evenemotionally wrenching, but we think it's well worth your reading time.

RVINE, Calif. - The local newspaper here, the Irvine World News, was graced with its global title by executives of Irvine Co. who wanted to communicate the "new world of

Irvine" to Southern Californians settling this Orange County frontier in 1972. 

It does not print international news. 

But the paper couldn't be better named from the perspective of Larry Agran, this city's mayor. The 44-year-old, Harvard-educated chief executive has set a global agenda for this Southern California town of 100,000 people.

IRVINE, Calif., July 18 -The ranks of American states, counties and cities impatient with the pace of international efforts to protect the earth's ozone layer are swelling.  The latest action comes from conservative Orange County, where the City Council of Irvine voted 4 to 1 tonight to approve what Is believed to be the most far-reaching measure yet to control ozone-depleting chemicals. 

The Irvine ordinance will prohibit the use of nearly will chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC's, and related compounds In any industrial process, except in the manufacture of drugs and medical devices and when military specifications call for them. It will ban the sale and use of styrofoam food packaging, ifthe chemical compounds were used in their manufacture, and it will prohibit the use of building insulation containing the compounds.

On September 5-8, 1990 local government officials from 43 nations gathered at the United Nations in New York to establish an international agency of local government called the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (Local Initiatives).  With support from local government organizations such as the national league of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors and their worldwide counterparts, Local Initiatives is governed by an Executive Committee of local government and environmental experts from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland, Zimbabwe, ivory Coast, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, the Soviet Union, Turkey India, The Philippines, Australia, and elsewhere.  The agency is currently developing formal affiliations with the United Nations and the world’s preeminent organization of local governments, the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA).

Published in conjunction with the

U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy’s U.S. Summit & Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy

November 16–19, 2010, Washington DC.

Materials included in this document are the views of the roundtable authors and are meant to serve as a tool for discussion.

© November 2010 | U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy

Cover: Robert Breeden, drumming for Huichol Marakáme Eguolojio De la Cruz in El Cerro de los Tigres. Photo: Maria Rios

Published in conjunction with the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy’s U.S. Summit & Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy

November 16–19, 2010, Washington DC.

Materials included in this document are the views of the roundtable authors and are meant to serve as a tool for discussion.

© November 2010 | U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy

Cover: Robert Breeden, drumming for Huichol Marakáme Eguolojio De la Cruz in El Cerro de los Tigres. Photo: Maria Rios

The K-12 Education Task Force Fostered globally and culturally competent citizens through K-12 global education.

Cover: Tom Sleigh (USA) teaches students at Dadaab Camp, Kenya

(June, 2009) - International Writing Program, University of Iowa

Published in conjunction with the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy’s U.S. Summit & Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy

November 16–19, 2010, Washington DC.

Materials included in this document are the views of the roundtable authors and are meant to serve as a tool for discussion.

© November 2010 | U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy

Published in conjunction with the

U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy’s U.S. Summit & Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy

November 16–19, 2010, Washington DC.

Materials included in this document are the views of the roundtable authors and are meant to serve as a tool for discussion.

© November 2010 | U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy