Cooperation in the world

The global reality continues to be dominated by deep injustice, making any hope of peace in the world totally unrealistic. It can not be a real hope for peace when, and a minority of the planet continues to control and exploit most of the available resources, to develop more and more advanced production technologies, to control both weapons of mass destruction that the new conventional weapons , the majority sees its standard of living continually worsen. And this majority includes many sectors of the populations of the North, where economic growth with regular employment contraction. We discover so that if there is an increasing amount of "south" in the North, South and South remains more likely to swallow even Eastern Europe and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
These findings must be added that industrial development and production systems of the rich North, now prevalent all over the planet, in every part of the world causing destruction and degradation of the environment which he had never seen in human history.
Sure, it is not only due to the failures of this cooperation continued deterioration of the conditions of fairness, justice and stability in the world, which is now reaching levels that pose a risk to the sustainability of human society, as evidenced by the proliferation of conflicts, the mass exodus of entire populations, the growing unmanageability of migration flows: they operate far more extensive and complex economic and political phenomena.
In this context, the reasons for the failure of a significant part of international cooperation must be sought in a practice that, regardless of any theoretical formulation, saw in the facts favoring the intervention compared welfare approach to development projects, paternalism and authoritarianism with respect to real forms of partnership, the use of cooperation as an instrument of pressure and exchange on issues of foreign policy or as an instrument of economic penetration of industrialized countries, and even as a means of competition among developed countries.
It happens so often that the leaders of the rich countries to adopt policies based on acceptance as a "fact" that a significant proportion of the poor countries can not redeem more. The conditions of the latter have deteriorated to such an extent, their inability to produce has now reached such levels - this is the dominant thought of some Western governments - that the best you can do for them is help them "survive" through small supports economic and small donations of goods and tools, for more often made products made in rich countries.
Neither however, from this gloomy picture, may be excluded responsibilities of many rulers of the countries in the developing world. Too often, and with the full connivance of others, cooperation projects are not served to the advancement of the people, not the creation of jobs, but the enrichment and strengthening of restricted local ruling classes.
These criticisms may be in use for a few to attack the very idea of ​​development cooperation, to invoke the end of appropriations and aid. In contrast, no development cooperation there can be no peace in this world. And we see that, alongside a dismal global situation, we must take note that you have developed at an international level and a national philosophy and practice of intervention that have achieved remarkable successes.
These analyzes, policies and interventions that have found their expression more accomplished in the recent conferences of the UN Copenhagen Summit on Social Development, the Rio and Kyoto last on the environment, on Women in Beijing, Istanbul on 'habitat, in Rome on food security, in Cairo on population. Faced with a situation in which a growing number of people on our planet is dangerously pushed toward more total exclusion from the economic and social fabric, the solutions put forward and some already successfully tested inevitably make reference, in each of the areas examined, the need to coordinate the actions of cooperation and structural projects with no more than sporadic and welfare approach (unsustainable in the long term and whose effect is to increase, however, that the dependence of power), but with interventions designed and implemented in terms of co-development and partnership, to a reordering of economic and social relations.
Partnership and co-development means the active pursuit of equal participation of all stakeholders in the cooperation at every level of choice and decision, and therefore governments and civil society, associations and manufacturers, men and women of the donor countries and the recipient countries.
Since cooperation is not an act of goodness, but an act of intelligence, an act of collective survival, it benefits both donors and beneficiaries.
You have to, however, at the same time, accept the notion that the rebalancing of the global political and economic relations can not be attributed to the policy of cooperation. It, ie, can not resolve the conflict so-called "North-South". These are issues of macro-economic policy and macroeconomic nature and relate to the complexity of relations between nations. Cooperation, for example, can not solve the problem of unequal exchanges between South and North, nor can resolve conflicts or regional military rivalry of the great powers. We may, however, help establish a climate of communication and peace: its main task is to indicate a new path based on practical experiences, through innovative problem solving economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of small and medium magnitude.
In particular, the development cooperation must intervene especially where the weaker sections of society are pushed towards the economic and social exclusion, with programs that help to rebuild the tissue through reintegration into the world of production and towards self-sufficiency. It must also take action to prevent social disintegration and strengthen the existing production facilities.
Much discussion today about the nature of development cooperation, whether it is the exclusive preserve of foreign policy or if you refer to reality more extensive. I am convinced that cooperation is an essential part of the foreign policy of a country. It, however, can not be used as an instrument of international pressure, but must respond to its primary purpose: to be an instrument of peace, sustainable development and democracy.