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Fundación Solón

Fundación Solón is a Bolivian research and advocacy foundation established by Pablo Solón, who served as Bolivia's Ambassador to the United Nations under President Evo Morales and as a lead negotiator on climate and trade agreements. After leaving government, Solón founded the organisation to develop and critically examine Vivir Bien (Buen Vivir) as a governance theory — assessing both its constitutional articulation and how it functions (or fails to function) in practice.

The foundation's work is not uncritical of the Bolivian government's implementation. It has documented the gap between the plurinational constitutional design and extractivist economic policies pursued under the same government that enacted it — treating this as an example of the hypocrisy disqualifier in governance: claiming one set of values while structurally operating on different ones.

Work areas

  • Vivir Bien as governance theory — developing Sumak Kawsay/Buen Vivir beyond its constitutional statement into a workable governance framework
  • Systemic alternatives — research on post-growth, commons-based, and plurinational governance design
  • Critical assessment of Bolivian governance — documenting the gap between plurinational constitutional commitments and extractivist policy
  • International comparative work — connecting Vivir Bien to other non-Western governance theories and experiments

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