A Fabulous Paradox: The Developmental Reflux

Abstract

Social development emerged like a Phenix in the post-war reconstruction. In the wake of global traumas, development movement manifested itself across the nations, especially those devastated by the horrors and terror of the world war. The Third World, better construed as the Global South, is now rising from the shadows of a dubious duality— advanced and developing—of panorama of nations bedeviled by the persistence of tribal nationalism. Fissures and antagonisms—old and new—have surfaced anew. The dynamics of this development are the foci of a new conceptualization that might liberate the human family from its own nemesis.