Colonization, Decolonization and Postcolonialism: An Interdisciplinary Guide

"The objectives of ACLALS are to promote and coordinate Commonwealth Literature Studies, organize seminars and workshops, arrange lectures by writers and scholars, publish a newsletter about activities in the field of Commonwealth Literature and hold one conference triennially. "

"The Centre provides a London hub for UK post-colonial studies, activities and events, and for international research and postgraduate teaching. It publishes Francosphères, the University of London's bi-annual journal of transcultural and intercultural French Studies, edited by Andrew Hussey and published by Liverpool University Press. Regarding itself as an agent for change, the CPCS will bring together academics and practitioners to inform policy decisions through evidence-based research. It is expected that the Centre will develop a new Masters programme of European decolonisation, as well as post-graduate research students, and will seek external funding to develop research activities."

"The ICPS is a multilingual forum - internationalist in spirit, interdisciplinary in method - for the comparative treatment of ideas, issues and problems related to the study of the colonial past and to the cultures of the contemporary postcolonial world. "

"The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent educational institution devoted to understanding postcolonialism and putting it into practice. It was established in 1996 [and] engages in activities that encompass intellectual enquiry, public debate and artistic expression."

"[The Association] aim[s] to help foster relevant work on, across and between such areas as anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, developmental studies, economics, gender studies, geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literary studies, political studies, sociology, and others. "

Since the birth of the United Nations, more than 80 former colonies comprising some 750 million people have gained independence. At present, 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories (NSGTs) across the globe remain on the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories, home to nearly 2 million people. Thus, the process of decolonization is not complete. Completing this mandate will require a continuing dialogue among the administering Powers, the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence of Colonial Countries and Peoples (also known as the "Special Committee on Decolonization" or the "C-24") and the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions on decolonization.