2002
-
HONORARY
PhD
IN
BIOETHICS
AND
HUMAN
RIGHTS
Pierre
Marchand
|
Personal
Data: Born on 19 November 1954 in Paris, France.
Academic and professional
background: Secondary school education in Rabat, Morocco and France; Psychology, Salpétrière Faculty, Paris; doctoral studies in Philology, l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne. Mr Marchand’s early commitment to social concerns left the doctorate unfinished. Self-education based on experience and independent study have completed his education.
Main fields: Child protection in France and worldwide. Project design and management. Fund raising.
Career: Mr Marchand’s first social commitment was at the age of 15 when he gave training courses in the shanty towns of Rabat.
1973-2000. He founded, developed and promoted the French Relief Committee for Vietnamese Children. Concern for the welfare of children has marked his career. |
Thibault
Marchand,
at
the
Award
Ceremony |
He has been involved in programmes in sixty countries including:
Honduras: Street-children programme, PARTAGE developed at the invitation of the Honduran government and with the collaboration of the French Embassy and financial support of the European Union. The methodology was adopted by UNICEF as a model for similar programmes in other countries.
India/Bangladesh: in collaboration with the Minister for Human Rights, the design of a French and later international publicity campaign in support of the child victims of the ethnic conflict in the Chittagong hill tracts.
Rwanda: contributed to a care programme for orphans at the Lycée Français in Kigali; in collaboration with the Red Cross, participated in a care programme for children in prisons in Rwanda; in collaboration with UNICEF and various NGOs, a care programme for homeless children placed with local families.
Camboya: At the request of the European Union and with the support of various NGOs, the design and running of a community development programme for the training of Buddhist monks for the repatriation of Cambodian refugees in Thailand. In collaboration with Professor A. Minkowsky, the design and application of a programme of psychological support for children; the programme was applied in Rwanda and Bosnia and later adopted by UNICEF and MdM. Mr. Marchand also founded a local NGO to continue the work with children in difficulties.
Thailand: Involvement and collaboration in a series of projects and programmes: the Foundation For Children campaign against child prostitution in Thailand; the founding of the Centre in Defence of Children’s Rights; the ECPAT campaign against sexual tourism; the Fight Against Child Exploitation initiative, a campaign that has profoundly modified the laws of Thailand. Fondation Appel des Prix Nobel de la Paix pour les Enfants: For the first time ever, Mr. Marchand brought together all the Nobel Peace Award winners to sign the document Pour les Enfants that he prepared in 1997. He also founded the Fondation Appel des Prix Nobel de la Paix pour les Enfants and drafted the resolution adapted by the UN and the EU declaring 2001-2010 as the International Decade of Non-Violence and Peace in Favour of the Children of the World. UNESCO: At the request of Professor Fédérico Mayor Zaragoza, Mr. Marchand contributed to the creation of the Manifesto 2000, published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2001, he organised the Nuit de la Paix in France.
Memberships: Permanent representative to UNESCO of the International Forum for Reconciliation.
Publications: La princesse et les oiseaux, the story of the life of Sadako, one of the infant martyrs of Hiroshima. Published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Parthage and translated into several languages, the book is obligatory reading for the students of the state of Tamil-Nadu, India. Contributions to the books Des prisons indiennes aux couloirs de Matignon and, at the request of Robert Laffont, Orphelins de Terre. Editorials: Founder and editor-in-chief of the three-monthly review Parthage.
Awards and Honours: Pfeffer Peace Prize, Fellowship of Reconciliation, USA; Komol Keemthong Prize, Thailand; Certificate of Recognition, Mme Aroyo, President of the Philippines; Nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize by the Princess Chulailak University, Thailand.
Pierre
Marchand
and
Mairead
Corrigan
Maguire
in
"Chakma"
Peoples
Village,
Bangladesh.-
Founded
in
1976
at
the
height
of
Northern
Ireland's
Troubles,
the
Peace
People
today
continue
to
promote
the
distinctive
vision
of
non-violence
through
an
active
democratic
citizenship
programme,
and
peace
education
amongst
young
people.
Mairead
Corrigan
Maguire,
co-founder,
and
Nobel
Peace
Laureate,
at
the
invitation
of
Pierre
and
Dipti
Marchand,
helped
in
the
organisation
of
an
Appeal
to
the
United
Nations
to
Declare
the
decade
2001-2010
to
be
for
the
Culture
of
Peace
and
non-violence
for
the
children
of
the
World.
She
travelled
extensively
to
lobby
successfully
for
this
proclamation.
This
Declaration
by
the
United
Nations
mirrors
the
Peace
Peoples
own
Declaration,
with
its
implicit
vision
and
commitment
to
non-violence.
The
Manifesto
Commitment
2000
was
also
distributed
by
United
Nations
to
all
the
countries
in
the
World.
The
Peace
People
have
collected
many
of
these
to
be
forwarded
to
United
Nations
to
add
to
the
30
million
already
collected
around
the
world.