Mayors for Peace Wins the IPB Sean MacBride Award

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning NGO International Peace Bureau (IPB) awarded its Sean MacBride Award to Mayors for Peace. This prize, established in 1992, is given every year to a group or individual who makes a conspicuous contribution to peace and disarmament.

An award ceremony was held in September last year during an IPB General Assembly in Helsinki. IPB Chairwoman Cora Weiss presented a medal to Mayor Akiba, president of Mayors for Peace. The same medal was presented by former IPB Vice Chairwoman Kate Dewes to Mayor Itoh of Nagasaki at the Global Citizens' Assembly held in Nagasaki in October.

In explaining the award, Chairwoman Weiss pointed to the 2020 Vision and the global scale of Mayors for Peace activities, which, she stated, have helped significantly to arouse international public demand for the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of genuine world peace. She expressed great expectations for continued Mayors for Peace campaigning and the desire for closer cooperation with IPB.