How is the continuous failure of development projects related to a lack of collaboration across disciplines and sectors?
Over fifty historical and contemporary cases of unsustainable development projects have been reviewed and analyzed. Globalhoods research demonstrates how the lack of collaborations across disciplines and sectors has led to 1) a shallow understanding or complete disregard for the broad and often complex contexts in which projects exists; 2) un-holistic, un-strategic plans that are either too sectarian, over generalized or superficial; or 3) a cultural paradigm that perpetuates unsustainable development based on narrow-mindedness, uneven power dynamics, exclusion, rigidity and a lack of feedback and accountability. Globalhood is aware that there is no panacea to solve the problems and flaws of the development industry. Collaborating across disciplines is just one aspect of reform that the industry needs to start producing real, lasting change. The lack of collaboration across disciplines and sectors often contributes to insufficient due diligence or a lack of knowledge of the broad and c
