Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding

SOCAL Sister Cities is all about understanding and promoting respect among people of different cultures, locally and globally. Citizen diplomats are reaching out, one-on-one, to citizens in other communities in Southern California and around the world. SOCAL oversees 88 Sister Cities from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, organizing conferences to inform, engage, and empower all members with opportunities for citizen diplomacy. It is the largest chapter of Sister Cities International.

For more information about the sister cities in SOCAL, see Sister Cities Directory.

If you wish to announce a sister city event or post your newsletter, please send the information to mike@vaughnlawoffice.com

Sister Cities International

The Sister City program was launched as a national concept at the White House in 1956, when President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower called for massive exchanges between Americans and people of other nations. Originally proposed as the people-to-people program, and as part of the National League of Cities, SCI became independent as a nonprofit organization in 1967. Sister Cities International is the national membership organization for sister city state programs in the United States, and currently represents more than 2,100 communities in 121 countries around the world.

"The Sister Cities Program is an important resource to the negotiations of governments in letting the people themselves give expression of their common desire for friendship, goodwill and cooperation for a better world for all."
~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sister Cities International
915 15th Street NW, 4th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005

(202) 347-8650
(202) 393-6524 Fax

E-mail: info@sister-cities.org
www.sister-cities.org