Tokyo, 3 June, /AJMEDIA/
An international scientific conference entitled “Imperial Structure: Colonial Ideologies and Realities” has commenced in Baku.
Organized by the Baku Initiative Group, the event is the first international conference of scientists operating in the field of decolonization in various UN agencies, as well as those specializing in this area.
Addressing the event, Abbas Abbasov, Executive Director of the Baku Initiative Group (BIG), said that since its inception, the organization operating in the field of decolonization within various UN agencies, has become a global platform for promoting economic initiatives worldwide and a source of hope for the people suffering from climate change.
Abbasov said that although the world has made significant progress in acknowledging the injustices of colonialism, it would be a mistake to assume that colonialism is entirely relegated to the past.
The scientific conference is attended by experienced UN experts in decolonization, renowned scholars working in France’s former and current colonies, renowned specialists in international law, ambassadors of foreign countries accredited to Azerbaijan, and MPs.
The event will engage in a comprehensive and thorough examination of the serious consequences of colonialism, the policies implemented by colonial states towards the peoples they enslaved, enforced racial hierarchies, as well as the political, economic and cultural restrictions applied as part of neocolonialism, and the policy of deliberate loss of national identity based on scientific and methodological approaches.
The conference will discuss the issues of preventing colonial powers from completing the process of decolonization, which is a requirement of international law and UN resolutions, and in this context the use of existing opportunities within international organizations, the introduction of effective mechanisms, as well as ways to address systemic inequalities at the level of international organizations.
