Analyzes

The issue of sustainable cities always relates to geographical contexts, which makes it difficult to compare, for example, the policies implemented in cities in the north and the south. The specificity of geo-historical, ecological and cultural environments, and of stakeholder interactions, requires adaptation of policies to each context and urban singularity. The Moroccan sustainable city must take (and account for) local social and cultural specificities and not import ready-made models even if they have proven themselves elsewhere / Ahmed Chitachni is a researcher in urban anthropology. He has been scrutinizing urban developments for a long time, and in particular those of African cities, starting with his own, the almost mythical Casablanca./ July 14, 2024

The overwhelming majority of overseas residents are very attached to France. They only ask to shine in the national sky. The problem comes from the "center", from continental France which refuses to recognize itself in the mirror held up to it by its colonial children. Once again, it is a political problem. Civil society has long been ready to exchange and appreciate this cultural wealth. One only has to look at the success of rap, zouk, Reunion and West Indian cuisine, the thousands of French tourists who are happy to visit these territories where they can speak French, the French-speaking West Indian communities that populate the Alliances Françaises in New York, Miami, London.../ Interview with Jean-Claude Mairal / August 11, 2024

Born in Tehran, Maryam Madjidi left Iran with her parents in 1986 on the paths of exile to settle in France, in Paris then in Drancy. She began studying literature at the Sorbonne. She then taught literature and the French language to middle and high school students, as well as French as a foreign language (FLE) in China and Turkey before returning to live in France. Since January 2023, Maryam Madjidi has been a columnist for the weekly L'Humanité Magazine. In 2017, she published "Marx et la Poupée", an autobiographical novel published by Le Nouvel Attila, winner of the Prix Goncourt for the first novel the same year. / Interview by Jean-Claude Mairal / August 26, 2024

Thanks to the Olympic Games, France shone in the eyes of the world. Its athletes competed in almost all disciplines and won a large number of medals. Among them, athletes from overseas territories allowed France to shine in many disciplines. Without them, France would not be among the top Olympic nations. Isn't it time to recognize the contribution of the Overseas Territories to France's prestige and finally get out of a certain contempt and ignorance of France towards these territories? / Jean-Mairal is co-president of I-Dialogos / Vichy, updated on October 3, 2024

At the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, the "Summit of the Future" that has just been held in New York, was to open consultations and discussions around reform proposals aimed at creating a stronger United Nations system that is less dependent on the major powers alone, an organization that can better correspond to current geopolitical realities. It is up to think tanks from all backgrounds, those more involved in international relations and geopolitics, including the most modest, to contribute to a debate that continues in Rio, within the framework of an "expanded" G20, then, next year, at COP30, two events chaired by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. / PH, updated on November 19, 2024.

Interview Gli Europei sembrano i soli al mondo a rigettare di fatto la propria identità, mentre le other nazioni si sviluppano in reazione all'universalismo Occidente et utilizzano la globalizzazione as a vero volano della potenza della loro nazione, o della loro civiltà. / Jacques Soppelsa, emeritus professor of Geopolitics at the University of Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne, ex President of the University, is one of the editors of the Magna Carta delle Università and one of the founders of the Erasmus Program and one of the maggiori studios of geopolitics. Soppelsa è uno dei promotori del think tank I – Dialogos / in LAB Politiche e Culture N3. / French version attached. / July 15, 2024

Since the Second World War, the treaties of the European Union, and in particular their economic constitution, have been based on predominantly mercantilist values. The consolidation of a common regulation for minimum wages at European level would strengthen the social protection of workers, by rebalancing the structures of economic and commercial relations in their favour. The paradox lies in the fact that it is currently not legally possible to establish such a single common instrument at European level. So why not reopen the debate and not only in Italy? Enrico Verdolini is a researcher in Constitutional Law at the Scuola Sant'Anna in Pisa and a PhD in Research at the University of Bologna. / in "Lab Politiche e Culture", Italian publication partner of I-Dialogos / July 2024

By launching the first European Conference on Plurilingualism in 2005, the founders of the OEP did not imagine the extent of the issue of linguistic diversity and plurilingualism. By emphasizing today the philosophical significance of the confrontation between, on the one hand, a monolingual ideology which permeates individual and collective behavior and the demand for plurilingualism, which we call the Plurilingual Imperative, we give its full reason for being to the multilingualism observatory project in Africa. Christian TREMBLAY / July 19, 2024

Paul Ghils is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the famous international journal COSMOPOLIS in Brussels: "The initial project of the League of Nations, amplified by the United Nations, was strengthened in the 20th century and weakened during this century. The European colonial empires have certainly come to an end, but the graft of "imported" democracy is withering away and is not extinguishing internal conflicts, which sometimes turn to ethnocide or genocide... Focused on the immediate, humanity is unable to conceive of a law that integrates it into the biosphere and guarantees the common good of future generations." Interview. updated on July 9, 2024

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation's 2024 report was published on June 19 around the theme "Africa's financial needs: where are the resources?" ". But the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Governance in Africa, which had its last winner since 2020, was not awarded this year. Scheduled for Lagos, Nigeria, from April 26 to 28, 2024, the “Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW)” — the event that brings together this major annual meeting — had to be canceled due, explain the organizers, to “difficulties insurmountable administrative burdens. Beninese journalist and editorialist, Serge Mathias TOMONDJI has been based in Burkina Faso since 1993. / in Libre Info July 19, 2024

“We start from the people: we strive to listen to them, to understand them… With regard to the “North”, we strive to provide the keys to understanding our situations and our struggles. To affirm convictions and commitments, we refer people from the “North” to their history, their experiences, so that they unlearn, review their behavior, open up to other concepts and logics. / Augustin Brutus is, in Pondicherry, the founder and director of the INDP (Intercultural Network for Development and Peace). / New broadcast 05/13/2024

The time has come to propose hitherto unthought-of possibilities for a happy outcome of a conflict which can help defuse the hatred and violence which has exploded against Jews and Muslims. At the crossroads, the future of these possibilities will once again, undoubtedly, outline the future of our humanity! A humanity whose metamorphoses are constantly at work and will continue their course, probably continuing to confer on myth and spirituality an “essential” function. Patrice CARDOT / November 14, 2023