Fondation Chirac

The Fondation Chirac was launched by former French President Jacques Chirac, after having served two terms in office between 1995 and 2007. Since 2008, this foundation strives for peace through five advocacy programmes:

It supports field projects involving local people with innovative solutions. The Fondation Chirac has also awarded the Prize for Conflict Prevention every year since 2009.[1]

The foundation's stated priorities include combating falsified medicines, deforestation and desertification, and helping to preserve endangered languages and cultures.[2][3] The "Sorosoro programme" took its name from an Araki word for "breath, speech, language". The endangered Araki language, in Vanuatu, was spoken by then by only eight people, and the programme's stated objective was to "participate actively in the struggle for the preservation and revitalisation of these endangered languages".[4]

The foundation was directed from its creation until 2013 by Catherine Joubert. Facing difficulties, the foundation must in 2012 leave its premises on rue d'Anjou and thank the staff, except Marc-Antoine Jasson, currently the only employee.[5] At the same time, Claude Chirac and Alain Juppé joined the board of directors.[6]

  1. ^ The Fondation Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention Archived March 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Chirac : «Je veux réveiller les consciences»", Le Figaro, June 6, 2008,
  3. ^ "Chirac launches foundation 'to awaken consciences'" Archived June 7, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, AFP, June 8, 2008
  4. ^ "Sorosoro", Fondation Chirac
  5. ^ "Invité du jour - Catherine Joubert : "Jacques Chirac voulait continuer à agir"". France 24 (in French). 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
  6. ^ Saint-Martin, Lori, "Objets du père I: le compas brisé", Au-delà du nom, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, pp. 23–25, retrieved 2022-08-10