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“Forum for Cities in Transition: The Power of Place”
by Ban Al-Mahfodh (UMass Boston William Joiner Center) and Ryan Bruen (Northeastern University)

The Forum for Cities in Transition

The Forum for Cities in Transition is an international network of mayors, councillors, municipal officials, business people, and representatives of the voluntary and community sector.

The Forum works on the principle that cities that are in conflict or have emerged from conflict are in the best position to help other cities in the same situation.

The Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts Boston hosted a conference from 14-16 April 2009, at which participants from the invited cities discussed the feasibility of establishing a Forum for Cities in Transition (FCT), what form it might take, the range of its remit, how it might work, and its terms of reference. The Forum will meet annually on a rotating basis in one of the member cities.

Participants at the Boston Conference included the mayors and senior city delegations from: Derry/Londonderry (NORTHERN IRELAND); Kirkuk (IRAQ); Kosovo Mitrovica (KOSOVO), Mitrovica (SERBIA); representatives of the GREEK- and TURKISH-CYPRIOT communities, Nicosia; and government officials from Belfast (NORTHERN IRELAND).

The participants agreed to establish a forum, with the Moakley Chair, Boston, and the Northern Ireland Foundation, Belfast, serving as Secretariat.

This website is maintained on behalf of the Forum for Cities in Transition, by the Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation, University of Massachusetts Boston and by the Northern Ireland Foundation, Belfast.

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The logo for the Forum for Cities in Transition was based on the semi-circular arrangement of tables for the plenary sessions at the initial conference that took place April 14-16, 2008, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. There is further inspiration from King Arthur's famed Round Table, with no head and everyone who sits there having equal status. In this design, the circle is presently half-complete, but with leaders of each city at their place, there will be collaborative work among Forum participants to realise a full circle.

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