The old adage - If you want to get there, I advise you don't want to start from here.

The analysis was so much driven by political rhetoric and, more unfortuantely, the aid and development industry. Bringing solutions without proper analysis, then analysis, the usual PEA (political economic analysis) by the usual suspects talking with those gatekeepers and vested interests. And on we went.

We created a false equilbrium driven by the agendas not founded with people, the majority of people, in-country.

In-country? Apply this to the different countries where politics of UK as well as USA have led us to create the lowest common denominators - the list has grown immensely in the last 20 years

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Paul James Crook
Paul James Crook

Written by Paul James Crook

Possibilities in mind, body & spirit opened by being in Fragile States: countries & inside my own head. Exploring one’s self & community Challenging boundaries

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