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  1. Mar 2021
    1. zones and regions designated as part of the ‘war on terror

      E.g. the US/UK invading Iraq despite having their request for a UN Security Council resolution for the right to use force being denied.

    2. who is included and who pays also have the biggest say in what the networks stands for, and how it relates to the broader field of work.

      This reminds me a lot of the UN and other big international organizations. E.g. we had a lead UN recruiter come speak at Sciences Po during a career fair and on the topic of how western these organizations are and she told us that despite her having both US and a British passport she was considered to be from underrepresented nations in accordance with UN employment policies.

    3. is there a space for INEE (members) to question western interventionism in, for instance, the Middle East –as these same powers are also the main funders for the work that INEE aims to do to counter-balance the effects of conflict?

      I’m definitely interested in hearing an answer to this, but also if the far majority of members are from the global north (even though it is good that people from the global north should question this too), should the question not be why there is this bias in where members are from and how to include more people from the global south (from CSOs, local NGOs, etc.)?

    4. they hireand host INEE Secretariat staff.

      Who is hired to work here and how is that decided? Are these decided by donors, by the biggest member groups? Are they only from the global north?

    5. US hegemony and the broader consolidation of the neoliberal politicalproject

      In some ways led by the Washington Consensus, whose wide application emphasizes the US´s ability to influence foreign governments in a very direct way.