International organizations should let local women & youth speak for themselves. Read allafrica’s article on how structural racism shows up in peacebuilding processes. WomensAgenda4Peace 👇🏿
which found systemic racism across the wider humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors. The report was in collaboration with the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict , International Civil Society Action Network , and United Network of Young Peacebuilders .The Oxford definition of decolonization is"the process of a colony or colonies becoming independent", but the meaning of the word can differ depending on a person's geographic location.
"In Cameroon we are facing a situation that has been going on since 2014 where anglophone Cameroonians who are a minority find it difficult to coexist with the French speakers who are a majority. Before colonization we had just one Cameroon and this situation was brought to us by colonial masters, the English and the French and today we find it difficult to come back to the one Cameroon that we used to be and lots of lives have been lost because of this," she says.
Raaval Bains, Research Officer at PeaceDirect and a co-author of the report says colonialism was created by greed and a lust for power. As a peacebuilder based in the United Kingdom which is part of the Global North, Bains says there is a problem of ego and arrogance in the Global North towards the Global South.
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