International development is a contested territory. As emergencies grow in number and scale, international aid is increasingly unable to respond to the desperate need arising from them. In spite of the objectives established by the United Nations in 2000, global poverty persists, and worse still, the gap between North and South is widening nearly everywhere. Meanwhile, the challenges posed by climate change have been turning everything upside down over the past century.

Despite these tremendous strains, communities in the North and South are beginning to take matters into their own hands. They are reinventing development around key principles, such as respect for human diversity; the right to live with dignity; the organic bond between humans; non-human life; nature; the importance of participation; and a democracy that reaches beyond the narrow boundaries that currently confine it.

This book brings together perspectives from diverse backgrounds to reflect on the why and the how of this critical situation. Contributors from around the world present initiatives and hypotheses aimed at restoring the world-and development-to the right side up.

This book is published in French.

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Le developpement international est un territoire conteste. A cause de l'aggravation des ecarts entre le Nord et le Sud, de l'accroissement de la pauvrete mondiale et de l'urgence ecologique, de nouveaux defis societaux emergent, s'accumulent et conduisent a des besoins criants qu'une aide internationale parvient de moins en moins a combler.

Malgre ces tensions, des communautes du Nord et du Sud tentent de reprendre les choses en main et de reinventer le developpement autour de principes cles : le respect de la diversite humaine ; le droit de vivre dignement ; le lien organique qui lie les etres humains ; la vie non humaine ; la nature ; et l'importance de la participation ainsi qu'une democratie qui depasse les limites etroites dans lesquelles elle est presentement confinee.

Cette edition nouvelle et actualisee regroupe des chercheurs de contextes divers, a travers le monde, qui s'unissent pour comprendre non seulement le
pourquoi
de cette situation critique, mais aussi le
comment , qui permettrait de remettre le monde, et le developpement, a l'endroit.

Ce livre est publie en francais.