The alternative routes to which I refer in this brief article involve the action of individuals outside any institutional framework who, strengthened by personal conviction and with extensive experience in international relations, work on a small scale to meet needs that traditional channels could not entertain. It can also be stated unequivocally that these shadowy figures, as I call them, act without any consideration of financial or professional return. These are the hard-liners of cooperation, people from the community, armed with strong political convictions and a recognized idea to share. Such sharing does not usually take place between peers but rather on a humanitarian basis and targets marginalized communities. In short, such cooperation basically lies with a culture of cooperation that is an end in itself to pursue objectives of mutual help and improvement.
Volunteers are transmission and linking mechanisms between people in far-flung countries.
Museology, like mediation, finds fertile ground in the process of alternative cooperation. I will mention only two examples where individuals have dedicated their lives to international exchanges. A street exhibition was mounted during national celebrations in the capital. The objective - to create symbolic meeting places, woven into accessible webs, from which informal social development museology cooperation projects will grow. Participants consider them key landmarks.