CHAPPATTE Patrick
Journalist, news cartoonist, co-founder with Plantu of the Cartooning for Peace Foundation.
Country: Switzerland
Biography:
Born in Pakistan to a Swiss father and Lebanese mother. Journalist committed to raising awareness of peace through his drawings. Co-founder of the Cartooning for Peace Foundation, following an initiative by cartoonist Plantu and Kofi Annan, then UN Secretary-General, to bring together 12 cartoonists at the UN in 2006 on the theme of unlearning intolerance. The foundation aims to promote better understanding and mutual respect between people of different beliefs and cultures, using press cartoons as a means of expressing a universal language.Publications:
- Cartoon reports(Lebanon, La mort est dans le champ, contre les mines à sous-munitions, for Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR), broadcast April 2011.
- Cartoon reports on current events for Le Temps (New York 2001; Gaza 2009, Nairobi 2010, Côte d'Ivoire 2010, Lebanon, against cluster munitions).
- La BD s'en va t-en guerre (DVD film by Mark Daniels based on drawings by several artists, including Chappatte)