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Mayor de Lille (Cape Town) new Chair of Steering Committee

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The Hague, March - From March 1, Patricia de Lille,  mayor of Cape Town, is the Chairwoman of the Steering Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors. She will be the interim Chair until the new Chair is elected during the Annual Convening in the Fall 2017. Mayor de Lille is taking over this position [...]

Mayor de Lille (Cape Town) new Chair of Steering Committee2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00

New Member: Mayor Garcetti, Los Angeles, USA

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Los Angeles, February 2017 - Mayor Eric Garcetti: “We are living at a time when the world has never been more connected, and when the leading challenges on the planet — economic development, safety and security, climate change, mobility — are equally local and global in scale.  That’s why I’m honored to join the Global Parliament [...]

New Member: Mayor Garcetti, Los Angeles, USA2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00

Empowering Cities Under The New US Administration

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New York, February 2 - The NYUSPS Schack Institute of Real Estate Urban Lab’s formal kick-off event, “Empowering Cities Under the New Administration,” was held on February 2, 2017 and featured Benjamin Barber, founder and president of the Global Parliament of Mayors, Richard Florida, Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley (NYU Stern School of Business). The panelists [...]

Empowering Cities Under The New US Administration2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00

“Compacts like the Global Parliament of Mayors are now more important than ever”

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Washington DC, December 28 - It was only three years ago that journalist Benjamin Barber argued in his book If Mayors Ruled the World that cities were better poised to solve global problems than national leaders. Link

“Compacts like the Global Parliament of Mayors are now more important than ever”2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00

Inaugural meeting of Global Parliament of Mayors in The Hague, The Netherlands

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The Hague / New York, September 1st 2016 On September 9, 10-11 2016, mayors representing cities from all over the world will convene in The Hague and celebrate the founding of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM). This new platform will enable cities to further their cooperation in addressing global challenges. For this inaugural meeting, mayors, experts, (UN-)organizations [...]

Inaugural meeting of Global Parliament of Mayors in The Hague, The Netherlands2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00

Benjamin R. Barber: “A Governance Alternative to Faltering Nation-States”

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Citylab, December 5, 2016 Let’s count down the list: There’s Brexit, of course: Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Venezuela, and the Philippines all look increasingly dysfunctional. Reactionary populism and xenophobia have risen to power in Hungary, Poland, and, astonishingly, the United States, with similar threats in France, and most recently, Italy after the defeat of Renzi. Link

Benjamin R. Barber: “A Governance Alternative to Faltering Nation-States”2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00

World’s Mayors Have a New Place for Sharing Ideas

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JEN KINNEY     FEBRUARY 22, 2016 With local leaders increasingly facing global challenges like climate change and large-scale migration — and often rising to the occasion — the more opportunities for mayors to collaborate, the better. This year, they’ll have another space for that kind of sharing: the first meeting [...]

World’s Mayors Have a New Place for Sharing Ideas2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00

The West’s major cities are the best defense against the tide of right-wing nationalism

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Washington Post, November 22, 2016 Towards the end of October, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, addressed an event hosted by the London Jewish Forum that commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, a famous street protest in the British capital that saw an alliance of local Jewish residents, Irish dockworkers, [...]

The West’s major cities are the best defense against the tide of right-wing nationalism2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00
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