For centuries, the influence of colonialism has altered the risk landscape of countries across the globe, either by maintained forms of marginalization, reinforcing elitist systems or supporting exploitative practices that intensify poverty and income inequality or degrade the local environment.
Notably, colonialism continues to take place under new forms, hidden in international policies, aid programs, or indirect interventions in the international economy and politics, among other expressions of neocolonialist power.
Identifying and acknowledging the impacts of colonialism and neocolonial power structures is the first step to dismantling these systems that reinforce and support systemic inequalities across the globe.
