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.

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Recent articles :

2024 Paul K. Feyerabend Award to Solidarity in Gaza – Five examples of human solidarity in Gaza that should inspire the whole world

16 September 2024 · by Ben · in Laureates 2024

Gaza is one of the oldest inhabited areas around the Mediterranean, with remains dating back five millennia. Since the middle of the last century, this tiny strip of land has been home to up to 2.3 million Palestinians, both original … Read more

The Ya-Misak University in Guambía (Colombia) – weaving cosmovision and economy, autonomy and spirituality, local knowledge and organisational strengthening

22 September 2024 · by Ben · in Laureates 2024

The Ya-Misak University is an educational process born in 2010 by the initiative of the ancestral authorities of the Misak people, under the conviction that the survival of the Misak people requires not only the recovery of land (a struggle … Read more

Md. Khaybar Sardar – plying a generous, catalytic role in community innovation and solidarity in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh

22 September 2024 · by Ben · in Laureates 2024

Mr. Md. Khaybar Sardar is honoured by the 2024 Paul K. Feyerabend Award for his innovative, generous and lasting contributions to generating and sustaining community solidarity, ingenuity and collective environmental care in the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh. An elder of … Read more

Strengthening communication and solidarity among the Matsigenka communities so that they can guide the conservation and development policy and practice in Manu National Park (Peru) according to their own cultural values

16 September 2024 · by Ben · in Initiatives 2024

The Matsigenka Nation was organised in December 2023 among seven native communities of the Matsigenka people, four of which are inside the Manu National Park, one of the most important biodiversity hotspots in the world, and the other three are … Read more

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