Today, the exact opposite is happening. The market and private interests have become omni-powerful, only freedom is promoted, at the expense of equality. The circumstances and Zeitgeist are ripe for re-assessing the dominant development paradigm, and working towards a new one. Education was included for the first time only in 1989. Science and communication were added later.
Culture is still basically absent.
Development was, and still too often is, reduced to strictly productive processes. Preventive policy-making for development, as well as in the areas of peace and conflict and environmental protection, must become the basic rule of global governance. An international debate, with the participation of all stake-holders, and not the least the citizens and their organizations, has been initiated around this issue of a new development paradigm and development policies on 30 November 1998. Re-thinking development 2. There can be no development without peace and no peace without development.