A world of solidarity is possible

Laureates 2024

The Foundation presents the 2024 laureates of the award !

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Supported initiatives in 2024

The Foundation presents the 2024 supported initiatives !

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Our aims :

Promote the wellbeing and empowerment of underprivileged human communities by valuing and supporting their own capacities to understand and to act, their biological and cultural diversity, and their sense of solidarity—internal as well as with other communities.

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Community

There exist a plethora of human “communities” in the ordinary sense; they share a territory, a city quarter, natural resources, a language, a culture, traditions, etc. These socio-cultural communities are crucial for the work of the Foundation. There also exist human communities which are centered around one or several common issues or interests but whose members may not be linked geographically or culturally.

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Solidarity

Solidarity is first of all an attitude and a value. It means the acceptance of the other’s humanity, and turns the other into an equal subject, independently of possible social, economic, political or other differences. But solidarity is also an active engagement – between individuals, within a community, or between different communities – for instance to defend or to reinforce a common good or a common interest.

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Meeting the Stranger, this fundamental event

Emmanuel Levinas calls « event » the encounter with the other, he even calls it « fundamental event ». It is, according to him, the most important experience, which opens the greatest horizons.

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The Foundation

The Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation promotes the empowerment and wellbeing of disadvantaged human communities. By strengthening intra and inter-community solidarity the Foundation strives to improve local capacities, promote the respect of human rights, and sustain cultural and biological diversity.

The Foundation was created in Switzerland in March 2006. It has an international Board of Directors including seven members.

As of 2024, the Foundation has supported 79 initiatives and honored 38 laureates with the Paul K. Feyerabend Award.

Recent articles :

Advancing the advocacy, agency and wellbeing of ethnic and linguistic minorities in Zimbabwe

Advancing the advocacy, agency and wellbeing of ethnic and linguistic minorities in Zimbabwe

16 September 2024 · by · in

The Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) of Zimbabwe has designed an initiative to advance the advocacy and agency of citizens in what it calls ‘Closed and Threatening Spaces”, i.e., underprivileged spaces where the lives of people could be much … Read more

Three Moroccan High Atlas communities are assisted to engage in action-research and act for their desired future, including by advocating for their own policy priorities

Three Moroccan High Atlas communities are assisted to engage in action-research and act for their desired future, including by advocating for their own policy priorities

6 October 2024 · by · in

This initiative concerns three communities in the High Atlas region of Morocco: two Amazigh communities (Tinmkar and Zat valley) that practice agro-pastoralism along with cash cropping and other livelihood activities, and one oasis-based community in the Draa valley, around Zagora.  … Read more

Four communities in Central African Republic strengthen their solidarity and social cohesion by consolidating their links with the territory of life they share and seek to defend more effectively against external threats

Four communities in Central African Republic strengthen their solidarity and social cohesion by consolidating their links with the territory of life they share and seek to defend more effectively against external threats

16 September 2024 · by · in

This initiative aims to strengthen social cohesion and solidarity between four communities in the north-east of the Dzanga-Sangha National Park in the Central African Republic. The villages of Beya, Belémboké, Panzi and Sced are located in the Sangha-M’baéré prefecture and … Read more

The Guardias Indigenas of the Shipibo-Konibo communities and COSHICOX govern and protect the watersheds of their territories in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon

The Guardias Indigenas of the Shipibo-Konibo communities and COSHICOX govern and protect the watersheds of their territories in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon

16 September 2024 · by · in

Historically, the territory’s watersheds have served as geographic backbone of the political organisation of the people Shipibo, in the Peruvian Amazon. The current emphasis on their protection stems from the understanding that watersheds are essential to both the health of … Read more

Small support to continue inter-community exchanges with the emblematic territory of life of Kawawana (Casamance, Senegal)

Small support to continue inter-community exchanges with the emblematic territory of life of Kawawana (Casamance, Senegal)

8 October 2024 · by · in

The territory of life of Kawawana has built an international reputation throughout West Africa and beyond.  The area, which today covers more than 20,000 hectares, has been well governed, managed and conserved for nearly 15 years by 8 Diola villages … Read more

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