What does it look like to govern with the world, rather than over it?
Our Chairholder, Carla Sabbatini, recently co-authored a thought-provoking new piece for the UNESCO Ideas LAB alongside the brilliant Iveta Silova, Victoria Desimoni, and Dilraba Anayatova.
Looking at the state of global education amid profound planetary transitions, the authors pose a critical question: What if the crisis is not that we have failed to cooperate, but that we have succeeded too well at maintaining a broken status quo? To reimagine the future of international cooperation, the piece proposes a different, more generative grammar based on five provocations:
Recognition: What if we dared to ask whose knowledge actually counts in global education?
Refusal: What if we recognized that remaining neutral is no longer an option?
Relation: What if staying in relation mattered more than reaching a neat agreement?
Responsibility: What if the goal wasn't just building networks, but creating space for mutual transformation?
Reworlding: What if multilateralism began by listening to land?
If we want to build a future that centers care, reciprocity, and plural ways of being, we need to completely unsettle what cooperation means and for whom it works.
Read the full piece, "'What if?': A different grammar of global education cooperation," at the link in our bio!