---
title: Fundación Solón
type: research
status: active
country: BO
website: https://fundacionsolon.org
logo: /assets/org-logos/fundacion-solon.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-07-30
  email: info@fundacionsolon.org
  source: https://fundacionsolon.org/contact
summary: A Bolivian research foundation led by Pablo Solón — former government minister
  and UN ambassador under Morales — developing Vivir Bien (Buen Vivir) as a substantive
  governance theory, and studying how plurinational constitutional design functions
  in practice.
concepts:
- buen-vivir
location:
  latitude: -16.5
  longitude: -68.15
  name: La Paz, Bolivia
rss_feed: https://fundacionsolon.org/feed
events:
- date: '1994-01-01'
  title: Founded by artist Walter Solón Romero
  url: https://fundacionsolon.org/la-fundacion-solon/
  quote: La Fundación Solón nació en 1994 por iniciativa del artista Walter Solón
    Romero Gonzales para fomentar la creatividad y la mirada crítica de los espíritus
    rebeldes. Con el paso de los años, y tras la partida del maestro en 1999, la Fundación
    Solón se convirtió en un centro de interpelación y búsqueda de alternativas a
    partir del arte, la investigación y el activismo para intentar cambiar el sistema
  note: '"The Solón Foundation was born in 1994 on the initiative of the artist Walter
    Solón Romero Gonzales to foster creativity and the critical gaze of rebellious
    spirits."'
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-17'
- date: '2015-12-11'
  title: Executive director Pablo Solón speaks at COP21 against the Paris agreement
  url: https://focusweb.org/press-statement-social-movements-united-in-defiance-of-false-solutions-being-negotiated-at-paris-cop/
  quote: 'Pablo Solon, former chief climate negotiator for Bolivia and current Executive
    Director of the Fundacion Solon, said: “The Paris agreement will force us to choose
    who of our children will survive, because in a +3C world, not all will be able
    to live.”'
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-17'
activity:
  dod:
    checked: 2026-07-05
    date: 2026-07-05
    note: Site confirmed active; articles dated through 3 July 2026 on Bolivian mining
      policy
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-09
    date: 2026-08-05
    note: 'Latest post: Cultura es lo que queda cuando ya no queda nada'
    url: https://fundacionsolon.org/cultura-es-lo-que-queda-cuando-ya-no-queda-nada/
last_checked: '2026-07-05'
---

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

## Links

- Website: [fundacionsolon.org](https://fundacionsolon.org)

## See also

- [CONAIE](conaie.md)
- [Buen Vivir / Plurinational Democracy](../concepts/buen-vivir.md)