Some Intercultural Challenges and Stakes of a “Good Global Governance”
First draft of a presentation at the International Conference of the Law and Society Association, “Law and Society in the 21st century”, Berlin
Governance and sustainable development are two concepts which contribute to the reshaping of the contemporary socio-economic-political-legal field. They seem to open up the classical state centred legal framework and to allow to take into consideration realities which have been so far ignored through the recognition of various dynamics of coregulation and the dynamics of civil society participation.
If it seems that through these concepts there is an opportunity to take social realities more into account and thus especially to rethink the « rule of law » in more indigenous terms in the former European colonies, one must address the fact that most of the contemporary debates on governance and sustainable development do not really take into account the intercultural challenges and seem to accept the framework of a « good governance » Western, or even “World Bank” style.
The paper will highlight the challenges of an intercultural dialogue on Law, governance and sustainable development in the contemporary world and will outline some pathways to address them. In doing so it will provide a critique of current legal theory and propose steps in order to move to a more intercultural theory of Law.
