Scholarship towards an Alternative World

The UP CIDS Program on Alternative Development (AltDev) aims to look at paradigms, policies, practices, and projects that are largely marginalized and excluded from the mainstream. As they challenge dominant modes, they do not figure prominently in the national and international discourse.

It aims to bring these alternatives out of the margins and into the mainstream and level the playing field so that they may be regarded on an equal footing with dominant discourses and thus offer alternatives to the existing system.

The first ever Southeast Asian Conference on Alternatives in 2018 was conducted to fortify networks of ongoing alternatives and peoples' organizations in the region.