This workshop explores the role of cultural exchange in shaping human development and East–West relations through postcolonial and decolonial lenses. It examines how historical power asymmetries continue to shape knowledge production, identity, and development trajectories.

The focus is on local agency, social change, and emerging realities related to migration, labour, gender, education, and sustainability.

We invite contributions on, but not limited to:

• Cultural diversity, migration, and urban governance: mobility, belonging, and identity.
• Education, knowledge production, and labour markets: whose knowledge is valued, roles of nationals, women, and foreign workers.
• Environmental sustainability and the green economy: climate response, food security, and policy.
• Political culture and post-conflict reconstruction: mediation, peacebuilding, and regional agency.

The workshop provides a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on how cultural, social, and political dynamics shape development, knowledge, and identity globally.