Social Policy in a Changing Global Order: Solidarity or Dependency? Navigating Autonomy, Power and Mutual Aid

This webinar examines the shifting relationship between solidarity, dependency, and autonomy in global aid and social policy systems amid deepening crisis and disruption. Drawing on research and practice, it explores how aid interacts with states, markets, families, and communities—sometimes strengthening them, but also reshaping or undermining them. As geopolitical fragmentation, conflict, and environmental instability transform the conditions of intervention, the discussion will address whether emerging approaches—such as mutual aid, localization, and alternative funding models—offer genuine pathways toward more equitable systems, or risk reproducing existing power asymmetries in new forms.