Alain Vivien Explained

Alain Vivien
Birth Date:	August 20, 1938
Birth Place:	Melun, France
Office:	Mayor
Term Start:	1977
Term End:	1983
Constituency:	Combs-la-Ville
Office2:	Secretary of State
Term Start2:	1991
Term End2:	1992
Constituency2:	France
Office3:	Chairman, MILS
Term Start3:	1998
Term End3:	2002
Party:	French Socialist Party

Alain Vivien (born August 20, 1938) is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician,^{[1] [2]} best known for chairing (1998–2002) the French Mission Interministérielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes, MILS,^[3] a ministerial organization designed to observe the activities of various religious organizations defined as "Sectes" (cults).

Early career

He was mayor of Combs-la-Ville in 1977–1983 and 1989–1992. In 1983 he was elected to the French National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne as a PS candidate. The author of a report on cults requested by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in 1982, he was Secretary of State under Édith Cresson in 1991–1992.^[4] From 1997 to 1998 he was president of the Centre contre les manipulations mentales.^[5]

Awards

• Leipzig Human Rights Award, May 11, 2002

See also

• About-Picard law
• Status of religious freedom in France
• List of anti-cult organizations and individuals

References

• Pourquoi la bataille anti-sectes a échoué ? ("Why did the fight against cults fail?") by Thomas Lardeur, VSD, August 22 to 28, 2002
• CESNUR, Anonymous, Innocents Abroad: French Anti-Cultists, Mission Support China’s Anti-Cult Campaign http://www.cesnur.org/2001/jan30.htm (Retrieved October, 2005)
• Le Parisien, June 19, 2002.
• Sectes : Alain Vivien placé sous protection policière L'Humanité, January 14, 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20050430103350/http://www.humanite.fr/journal/1999-01-14/1999-01-14-441385.
• Council of Europe, Report regarding FECRIS by Dick Marty: Doc 10470 of 7 March 2005

Notes and References

1. Hart, K., M. Blanchot and Z. Paul. 2010. Political Writings, 1953–1993: Fordham University Press. [{{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=RWI6vH-ZcxgC }}].
2. Côté, P., E. Barker and Université Laval. Groupe de recherches en sciences de la religion. 2001. Chercheurs de Dieux Dans L'espace Public: Groupe Beauchemin. [{{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=1rXrWVEHwosC }}].
3. Tromso, N.J.R.L.A.P.R.U. 2009. Scientology: Oxford University Press, USA. [{{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=MtW90YkkB3gC }}].
4. Palmer, S. 2011. The New Heretics of France: Minority Religions, la Republique, and the Government-Sponsored War on Sects: Oxford University Press, USA. [{{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=pY5pAgAAQBAJ }}].
5. Book: Palmer, Susan. [{{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=pY5pAgAAQBAJ |page=17 }} The New Heretics of France: Minority Religions, la Republique, and the Government-Sponsored ''War on Sects'']. 2011-09-23. Oxford UP. 9780199875993. 17.