It is the first time a former member of any paramilitary group will receive the council's highest honour.
Mr McCourt, who turned down an MBE, will now receive the honour after a majority-vote on Wednesday.that he had "mixed feelings" about the whole process.
In July, DUP and UUP councillors abstained from the original vote to confer the honour on Mr McCourt.That mechanism allows for a decision that has not yet been implemented be looked at again. He formed the group Survivors North West after he spoke publicly about his own experience as a child at St Joseph's Boys' Home in Termonbacca in Derry.
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