Questions of Development and Culture

Abstract

the success of any development, and as a support for the transition from underdevelopment to progress.

There is no real development without the fundamental role of culture that represents its spirit, and here it is necessary to refer to an isosceles triangle, where each side of which, represents a dimension, and the three dimensions are:

1- The economic dimension

2- The social dimension

3- The cultural dimension

And we can also add the environmental dimension, where the triangle becomes a square.

The research deals with the dialectic of culture and development and that the first is at the core of the second, this has been adopted by the United Nations since September 2015 regarding sustainable development in its broadest sense, which includes expanding people’s choices, the inclusiveness of the principle of equality, non-discrimination, in addition to freedom, and the respect for human dignity, acquiring knowledge, the right to enjoy beauty.

 The research also focuses on the problems of development in Arab countries, most notably the rentier state, the persistence of the gap between the rulers and the ruled, the weakness of the political and administrative institutional structure, the weakness of the concept of citizenship, the spread of sectarianism, clan and regionalism, the failure to solve the problems of religious, ethnic and linguistic cultural groups, and the weak participation of women in public and political life in particular and  the continued growth of the bureaucratic apparatus.

Finally, the researcher sheds light on the Declaration of the Right to Development that was issued by the United Nations in December 1986, which consists of 10 articles, the basis of which is the human right and the right of peoples to development in connection with the issue of peace and security.