Georgie Anne Geyer is a well known syndicated columnist. She has delivered distinctive foreign commentary from a variety of foreign fronts for more than 30 years. Here she talks about His Highness the Aga Khan’s recent speech delivered at Global Philanthropic Forum.
We could help develop the poor world in the post-colonial period after World War II because we had a precious period of peace. When John Kennedy became president, the Alliance for Progress, in which we invested alongside the Latins in their future, was wonderfully successful, but only while JFK lived and inspired the process.
Today we are in a different and strangely ambivalent period regarding development, and it surely is a time to stop, think and reconsider. Early in May one of the most thoughtful men on this subject visited Washington and shared some of his original, and workable, ideas.
The charming, Harvard-educated Aga Khan is the 49th hereditary spiritual leader or Imam of the 12 million-member Shia Ismaili community in 25 countries across Asia and Africa. He was frank about the unfortunate, but real, failures of democracy as “the” developmental mechanism, as he spoke here in one of the clearest delineations of thinking about human development today.
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