Development or Destruction!
- Dear Friends, The topic of so call "Decolonizing Development Cooperation", from my understanding it is a lullaby for indigenous people living in watershed forest landscapes in Mekong Countries I use the term ‘lullaby’ in the sense of a sweet song that parents sing to their children to help them go to sleep. What I am implying is that the idea of ‘decolonizing development cooperation’ is a sweet song sung by Western development agencies to make their development partners in the Global South fall asleep, and of course, this is not what decolonization should be, so what is decolonization from our point of view?! .....
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