Forum

1/9 The World Decolonization Forum is a three-part international series (2026, 2028, 2030). Each theme builds on the previous:

• 2026 - Decolonizing Knowledge Production and Circulation;
• 2028 - Decolonizing Institutions and Organizations;
• 2030 - Decolonization in Practice: Proposals for Society.

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2/9 Organized by the Turkish think tank Institute Social (Enstitü Sosyal). Its General Coordinator is İpek Coşkun Armağan, a sociologist and education researcher who also serves on the Presidential Board for Social and Youth Policies.

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3/9 A key organizing partner is the NÛN Foundation for Education and Culture, chaired by Dr. Esra Albayrak (Erdoğan). She is the daughter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and married to former Finance Minister Berat Albayrak.

4/9 The Forum is supported by two main bodies: a Scientific Committee and an Organizing Committee.

The Scientific Committee includes dozens of prominent international academics - historians, legal scholars, journalists, critical theorists, and anti-colonial thinkers; alongside Islamic scholars and leaders. For example:

• Walter Mignolo
• Anne Norton
• Last Moyo
• Tullio Scovazzi
• Salman Sayyid
• Hatem Bazian
• Joseph Massad

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5/9 Canadian academic Adrian Harewood serves on the Scientific Committee.

A Professor of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University and former longtime CBC Ottawa anchor/host, he moderated sessions and contributed to discussions on decolonizing media and countering hegemonic narratives at the May 2026 Forum.

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6/9 The Scientific Committee also includes two prominent Chinese academics with strong CCP ties: Guo Changgang and Zhiguang Yin.

Guo Changgang is a senior professor (Shanghai University and others) and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a key political advisory body in China’s united front system under the CCP.

He has also been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to the U.S. Department of State.

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7/9 Zhiguang Yin is a Professor of International Politics at Fudan University and chief expert on several National Social Science Fund of China projects.

His work centers on Marxist political economy and decolonization. He actively advocates for “cultural decolonization” and alternatives to Western-dominated global orders.

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8/9 The Organizing Committee is primarily composed of staff from Institute Social and partner organizations.

Key figures include:

• İpek Coşkun Armağan – General Coordinator
• Selçuk Aydın – Coordinator of Social Research

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9/9 In practice, the World Decolonization Forum operates as a global Red-Green alliance led from Turkey. Its explicit goal is to “decolonize” minds, institutions, and societies by challenging Western dominance.

With the alignment of Turkish state-linked institutions, Chinese academics with CCP ties, and radical decolonial/Islamist thinkers, it appears designed to advance Chinese-style multipolarity and Islamist civilizational goals. 

It makes me think of “Islamic Decolonization”, and how it could be the gradual implementation of Sharia using the terminology of the Left.

Decolonizing Knowledge, Institutions, and Society in order to establish the Caliphate.