MISA Regional Annual Report 2023 Regional Director’s Report Expression in the Age of Fragmentation The world is more fragmented today than ever. Strife is more pronounced at a global scale, with conflicts degenerating to armed conflict. The number of people living in fragile states is perpetually on the increase, while more people are facing starvation due to climate changeinduced famine. Extremism is on the rise, as much as the rightwing thinking polity which has swept across Europe, including the traditionally left-wing in countries such as Sweden. Regional Secretariat Director Dr Tabani Moyo “ collaboration and solidarity will become the most strategic and responsive mechanisms for defending expression, which is increasingly under attack from moving targets The global order has shown beyond doubt that the collective approach to conflict resolution is increasingly under strain, with the global leadership generally on retreat. In these precarious conditions, expression and truth-telling are the first layers of casualty, as nations recoil, become inward looking, focusing on narrow national issues at the expense of a holistic picture. Suffice to say the entire construct of humanity is highly vulnerable due to such inward-looking approaches. Fragmentation at a global scale is a fertile ground for broad, dwindling support to issues of governance and humanity. MISA believes collaboration and solidarity will become the most strategic and responsive mechanisms for defending expression, which is increasingly under attack from moving targets. This raises the need to attend to the elephant in the room within the developmental and governance support ecosystem – the power 6 www.misa.org