International organizations are composed of a wide range of state representatives with diverse political systems and cultural backgrounds. How does this contribute to the reproduction of colonial legacies? How can this be an opportunity for decolonisation of international politics to exist in practice? The UN system has been grounded on Western values, most notably universal human rights, but also many notions of progress (and associated racialized teleologies). From such a perspective, how can the UN be decolonized ? Julie Billaud, professor of anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute answers this question for the webzine Global Challenges no. 10 | Oct. 2021 entitled Decolonisation: A Past That Keeps Questioning Us. Podcast produced by Marc Galvin and Dominic Eggel for the Research Office (Geneva Graduate Institute).

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