The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention
Dr. Park Jae-Kyu, laureate of the Special Jury Prize on November, 2009, makes the headlines in Asia… Read more
The Fondation Chirac, new member of FWP
Since 2010, February, the Fondation Chirac is a member of the French Water Partnership (FWP). Created on March, 22, 2007 on the occasion of World Water Day, FWP brings together the French water stakeholders… Read more
The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention
In “Jeune Afrique“, Marianne Meunier highlights the complexity of the situation in Nigeria, from where come the laureates of the Prize for Conflict Prevention. Read more.
International mobilization against the traffic of falsified medicines
Dr Boniface Okouya, the president of ISYPHARMA, has proposed a law against falsified medicines, which is under consideration by the Congo Republic, barely three months after the Cotonou Declaration. Read more.
The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention
Distinguished by the Fondation for their work with Muslim and Christian communities in Nigeria, Imam Ashafa and Pastor Wuye travelled to Iraq and then on to Sudan. Read more.
First Award Ceremony of the Fondation Chirac Prize - November 6, 2009
On November 6, 2009, the Fondation Chirac awarded its first Conflict Prevention Prize. The Fondation Chirac Prize went to Imam Muhammad Ashafa and to Pastor James Wuye for… Read more
Award Ceremony of the Fondation Chirac Prize
The Fondation Chirac was created to work for Peace by the President Chirac. This year, it will award the first Conflict Prevention Prize. Discover the names of the laureates. See more.
International mobilization against the traffic of falsified medicines
In an effort to act efficiently and globally, the Fondation Chirac has launched a campaign to raise international awareness. Read more
Rozenn Milin, General Delegate for preservation of cultural diversity
Rozenn Milin, Sorosoro Program Director and General Delegate for the preservation of cultural diversity, describes what has been done during Sorosoro first year.
Pictures from the second trip to Gabon
From May 19 to June 18, 2009, Luc-Henri Fage, head cameraman for Sorosoro, went to Gabon to safeguard two languages: the akele language and the punu language. See some pictures from this trip.
Rozenn Milin, General Delegate for the preservation of cultural diversity
Rozenn Milin, General Delegate for the preservation of cultural diversity and Director of the Sorosoro Program, explains what…
Biso na Biso Radio, Pokola (Congo)
“Biso na Biso isn’t a radio. It’s a philosophy. It’s a challenge.” These are the words of Adolphe Elemba, the prefect of the Department of the Sangha (North Congo) in an interview granted to the Community radio Biso na Biso, on the occasion of its official launching…
The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention
On June 15, 2009, the jury of the Prize met for the first time. See the interviews of Michel Camdessus and Ismaïl Serageldin, members of the jury, and of Olivier Lafourcade, member of the Committee of experts.
Partnership between the Fondation Chirac and the TFT
On June 6, 2009, the Fondation Chirac and its partner, the Forest Trust, exposed their achievements and projects for their struggle against deforestation and desertification. Look for the speeches and pictures.
Bastien Sachet, in charge of the actions against deforestation and desertification
Bastien Sachet, Director of Business Development at The Forest Trust, explains the main objectives of the program of actions against deforestation and desertification of the Fondation Chirac.
The first meeting of the Jury of the Prize for Conflict Prevention
On June 15, 2009, the Jury of the Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention gathered around the President Jacques Chirac for the first time, in Paris. For more information, click here
Fifth Meeting of the Board of Directors
The Fifth Meeting of the Fondation Chirac’s Board of Directors was held on Tuesday 23rd June, rue d’Anjou, in Paris. Franck Debié was appointed Managing Director of the Fondation Chirac, and Philippe Brongniart, Arnaud Danjean, Professor Marc Gentilini, Rozenn Milin and Bastien Sachet…
Bernard Vatier, Founding member of the Fondation Chirac
Bernard Vatier, lawyer, former President of the Paris Bar and Founding member of the Fondation Chirac, gives his point of view on the objectives of the Fondation Chirac…
The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention
The first meeting of the Committee of experts of the Prize for Conflict Prevention took place on May 7, 2009. Every year, a panel of experts identifies areas where there is…
To submit a project to the Fondation Chirac
The Fondation Chirac’s 2009 budget is closed and its board of experts will start the next group of projects in January 2010.
Pictures from the first trip to Guatemala
On February 2009, head cameraman José Reynès headed for Guatemala. The goal was to film two maya languages: Tektiteko and Kaqchikel. See some pictures from this trip.
The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention
The Fondation Chirac launches a Prize for Conflict Prevention in order to improve awareness and support for those who dedicate a part of their lives and resources to preventing conflicts…
René Ricol, Founding member of the Fondation Chirac
Look at René Ricol, Founding member of the Fondation Chirac, explaining his view on cultural diversity regarding economic issues…
Jean-Pierre Lafon, Founding member of the Fondation Chirac
Look at Jean-Pierre Lafon, Ambassador of France and Founding member of the Fondation Chirac, explaining his view on conflicts prevention
World Africa Day
World Africa Day, celebrated May 25th, reminds us that despite considerable progress in many domains, Africa lags behind in terms of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). This is especially true when it…
Valérie Terranova, Founding member of the Fondation Chirac
Look at Valérie Terranova interview, Founding member and Council Secretary of the Fondation Chirac
The Benin National Laboratory of quality control of medicines
Look at the interviews of Farid Baba-Moussa, Director of the Benin National Laboratory of Quality Control of Medicines, and of Philippe Bernagou, Director of Pierre Fabre Foundation.
President Chirac invited by the Emir of Qatar
President Chirac was invited to speak on May 3, 2009 at the opening of the Doha Forum, by His Highness Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar.
The Center for social excellence of the Congo basin forests
With the Tropical Forest Trust, the Fondation Chirac is working to certify millions of acres of tropical forests in the Congo Basin forest, imposing the involvement of local populations and the acknowledgement of…
Jacques Chirac’s three day trip to China
Jacques Chirac’s three day trip to China will afford the former President the chance to return to a country he holds dear and to maintain Franco-Chinese relations.
Biso na Biso on Development Marketplace Turning Ideas into Action
The project, funded with generous support from the WB Development Marketplace (2005), Congolaise Industrielle des Bois, TFT and the Chirac Foundation, aims to give…
Sounding the alarm about access to high quality medication
On April 7 2009, World Health Day, the Fondation Chirac urged political leaders to make access to high quality medication a world priority.
Jacques Chirac: Sustainable development during an economic crisis “is possible” and “even particularly necessary”
Friday April 3, 2009, President Chirac defended sustainable development while visiting the Sustainable Planet exhibition. He emphasized the fact that during an economic crisis, it “was possible” and “even particularly necessary because sustainable development by definition is frugal, in terms of both energy and means”.
G-20: Poor countries also need to be saved!
On the eve of the G20 Summit in London, Jacques Chirac asks to the learders from the G-20 to “take clear, fair, forceful measures to save the poorest nations from the crisis”.
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall: “There can be no peace without dialogue”
Mauritania’s former President, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, accepted last June to become a member of the Fondation Chirac. Here below, he explains his commitment and his perception of the Fondation.
Jacques Chirac supports Aladdin Project
On March 27, 2009, the French Foundation for the Memory of the Holocaust launched the Aladdin Project at Unesco, Paris. As one of the patron of the project, Jacques Chirac delivered a speech against revisionism…
World Tuberculosis Day
For World Tuberculosis Day, Dr Emilie Catherinot, pulmonologist at both Necker and Foch hospitals, takes stock of the tuberculosis epidemic for the Fondation Chirac.
Center of Social Excellence
Read the first Biso na Biso Newsletter : to facilitate exchanges between the various players involved in forest management, the creation of the Center for Social Excellence will be assisted in…
Ideas for development
On Ideas For Development Blog, Abdou Diouf and the Fondation Chirac speak about the recent implementation of a European directive threatens the collection of unused médicine.
Talk about town: Sorosoro and the safeguard of endangered languages
On February 21, during Unesco’s International Mother Language Day, different foreign media interviewed Rozenn Milin, Program Director for “Sorosoro, so the languages of the world may prosper!”.
Drugs Quality control Unit in Benin
The Drugs Quality control Unit in Benin has completed a new phase. The extension project’s different partners have signed the convention and the first stone was laid at the end of February 2009.
Pictures from the first trip to Gabon
On January 25, 2009 began the program “Sorosoro, so that the languages of the world may prosper!”: a first team went to Gabon to shoot two languages. Footage had been gathered in Libreville (Gabon) by chief camerawoman Muriel Lütz and Patrick Mougiama Daouda, linguist from the University of Omar Bongo and the University of Lyon 2.
Plan for strengthening capacity in rural areas in Mali
In partnership with the African Development Bank, the Fondation Chirac supports actions to improve fresh water and sanitation supplies in Mali. This video shows what the African…
The Benin National Laboratory of Quality Control of medicines
A video shows the work of the Benin National Laboratory of quality control of medicines. It was shot in 2006 by the Pierre Fabre foundation. In partnership with the Fondation Chirac, the Benin government…
SOAS: Endangered Languages Week 2009
There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken today and half of them are under threat from larger languages. Endangered Languages Week 2009 presents a variety of displays, discussions…
Languages as vectors of peace
This year, the UNESCO was celebrating at the same time the end of the International Year of Languages, which had implemented more than 200 projects to promote languages in the world.
Paris Agricultural Fair: a visit marked by sustainable development
As usually Jacques Chirac went to the Paris International Agricultural Show to highlight French farmers’ dynamism. This time, he wanted to pay a special attention to sustainable development and…
Jacques Chirac at the “Paris International Agricultural Show”
On Tuesday 24th, Jacques Chirac will be at the Paris International Agricultural Show. In conformity with the actions of the Fondation Chirac, he will pay a special attention to sustainable development…
Sorosoro with the Mayans
The day after the first team came back from Gabon, another one headed for Guatemala on February 14, 2009. The Guatemalan linguists Juliana Sis’Iboy and Juventino Perez, both working at the OKMA Center…
Plan for strengthening capacity in rural areas in Mali
Look at the pictures from the African Development Bank’s work in Mali. This is the first project that the Fondation Chirac supports to ensure sustainable access to fresh water and to sanitation services.
Sorosoro at the UNESCO to support linguistic diversity
Rozenn Milin, Sorosoro Program Director, will speak at the UNESCO on February 18th and 20th on the eve of the International Mother Language Day and of the end of the International Year of Languages.
News from the radio Biso na Biso
On February 2009, Biso na Biso, the radio created along with the Centre of Social Excellence, sent one of its very first recordings.
Jacques Chirac attends the “6 Billion Others” exhibition
On Saturday 31, January, Jacques Chirac visited the exhibition “6 Billion Others” at the Grand Palais, in Paris, guided by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his team.
Newsletter from the 5th February
The Fondation Chirac published its first newsletter: click here to read it
Erik Orsenna: “Access to water is the first access to life”
In “L’avenir de l’eau, petit précis de mondialisation II”, Erik Orsenna (photo opposite taken during the Sorosoro Encounters on June 9, 2008, credit: Eric Lefeuvre) deals with one of the…
Sorosoro’s first film shoot!
Lights, Camera, Action! On January 25, Rozenn Milin, the director of “Sorosoro, so that the languages of the world may prosper!” launched the first phase of her program to compile a Digital Encyclopedia of Languages.
The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
Every year since 2001, political, economic and institutional leaders from all over the world meet in Delhi to debate on both sustainable development and climate change. Organized by the TERI…
Few days in Abu Dhabi
The President of the Fondation went to the Middle East. MidDecember, Jacques Chirac went to Abu Dhabi. There, he met with sheik Khalifa ben Zayed and exposed him the goals of his Foundation. They…
Rajendra Pachauri pleads for another kind of development
As the Nobel Price and head of the intergovernmental panel of experts on climate (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri came to Europe to assist to the Poznan Conference on climate in Poland, he dropped by in Paris to…
Sorosoro in Action
November 28, the Scientific Council of the program “Sorosoro, so that the languages of the world may prosper!” met for the first time. This Council validated the launch of the program’s first phase. The heritage…
After Claude Lévi-Strauss…
These past hundred years have changed how we perceive differences and have revolutionized how we think of relationships between cultures. Friday November 28 was Claude Lévi Strauss’s 100th birthday. The Fondation Chirac and its President salute…
The First Meeting of the Sorosoro Scientific Council
The program “Sorosoro, so that the languages of the world may prosper!” cannot be undertaken without the expertise of men and women in the field. Over the past few weeks, Rozenn Milin, director of the Sorosoro program, has constituted a scientific committee that will meet for the first time on November 28, 2008.
A partnership with the blog “Ideas for development”
“Ideas for Development” is an international Blog meant to stimulate debate on development issues. It brings together a set of senior professionals engaged in this sphere through their…
December 1st: day of remembrance, day of hope
Every December 1st for the last twenty years, AIDS has pushed itself to the forefront of the world’s consciousness. Twenty years of failures and despair as Michel Kazatchkine underlined during the inauguration of…
The 13th November Conference’s conclusions
Read the recommendations for the 5th World Water Forum (Istanbul, March 2009) after the Water for Peace, Peace for Water conference
“Defend human rights through dialogue between cultures”
Attorney Vatier, former President of the Paris Bar association, continues to believe that human rights are progressing. Member of the board of directors of the Fondation Chirac, he sees dialogue between cultures as a key to…
A meeting between Vigdis Finnbogadottir and Jacques Chirac
On Tuesday November 28, President Chirac met with Vigdis Finnbogadottir, former President of Iceland. Vigdis, as the Icelanders traditionally call her, is known for having been the world’s first elected woman head of State…
Wangari Maathai, new member of the Honour Committee
On November 14, 2008, during a visit to Paris, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai, met with Jacques Chirac. Because both work towards saving biodiversity and share the same attachment to…
Conference “Water for Peace - Peace for water”, documentation
Conference “Water for Peace - Peace for water” - Jacques Chirac stands up to denounce the tragic fact that 900 millions people still…
Transboundary cooperation, source of peace
The joint management of water ressources is a necessity because 90% of the world’s population live in countries sharing water resources with others. It is not a dream; it has become reality with…
2015 Goals: “Eight times Yes!”
On September 8, 2000, The United Nations General Assembly adopted the “Millenium Declaration”. This declaration is a set of eight targets, with a due date of 2015, developped in answer to the urgent need to fight world poverty…
“Survival”, global health of the poorest through the world
“Survival” is a landmark documentary series made for BBC World News. It offers a unique insight into how some of the world’s biggest killers and causes of morbidity…
Quebec showcases Francophonie
Abdou Diouf, General Secretary of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and member of the Fondation Chirac Honour Committee, will attend the 12th Francophonie Summit at Quebec…
Jacques Chirac agreed to an interview with NIKKEI
The former President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, agreed to an interview with the newspaper, NIKKEI, during his visit to Japan…
Jacques Chirac presents his Fondation to Japan
From Sunday, October 12 through Thursday, October 16, President Jacques CHIRAC will travel to Japan to present the Fondation Chirac and to establish partnerships.
Water for Peace and Peace for Water
The Fifth World Water Forum will be held in Istanbul in March 2009. A few months prior, the Fondation Chirac will organize, along with…
Radio “Biso na Biso” – the beginning of September 2008
After the journey in the end of July, TFT organized next expedition to Congo. The goal of the expedition was the initiation of the coordinators’ work, Francis Wabout’s and Privat Massanga’s…
Access to Medication: policy priorities in poor countries
Because action and reflexion are inextricably linked, Jean-Pierre Landau and Philippe Bernagou studied the issues pertaining to this theme, at the foundation’s request.
President Chirac engaged in the fight against malaria
President Jacques Chirac attended the inauguration of the “Bad Air” exhibition. Through his attendance, he reaffirmed his engagement and that of the fondation Chirac in the struggle against malaria.
Youssou N’Dour Stars in a Benefit Concert for Children
On Saturday September 27, 2008, Youssou N’Dour, member of the Fondation Chirac Honor Committee, sings in a benefit concert…
Radio Biso na Biso at the end of July
From the 25th of July to 2nd of August 2008 people responsible from TFT went to Brazzaville in Republic of the Congo to recruit the radio crew. In program: incentive conversations with…
The launch of the fondation Chirac
The fondation Chirac officially launched its work in favour of peace June 9th, 2008 at the Quai Branly in Paris. President Jacques Chirac and the members of the Honor Committee used this opportunity to present the mission of the foundation.
Launching of the Fondation Chirac
The President Jacques Chirac launches his Fondation on the 9th of June at the Musée du quai Branly (Claude Lévi-Strauss Theater) surrounded by the members of the Honor Committee.
Reasons for our commitment
Protecting biodiversity, dialogue between cultures and fostering respect for the environment: because these issues all require multiple responses, the action of the Fondation Chirac will take multiple forms.
Areas of action
The Fondation Chirac, through the projects it chooses to support, wants to encourage the exchange of ideas, techniques and values and to contribute to weaving an ever-broader web of knowledge and practices that will spontaneously lead to sustainable development.
The world of languages today and what it could be in 2100!
Approximately 6,000 languages are spoken on earth but half will die during this century. The death of these languages leads to the loss of traditional knowledge which is an irreplaceable loss of human heritage.
