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Cooperating means helping or collaborating with someone in order to provide support. Cooperating implies offering to others and, therefore, cooperation is normally associated with solidarity, to the altruism or to generosity.

There is no single reason for cooperation, but somehow help is offered out of a feeling of empathy towards others or because human beings usually contemplate the idea that we must do for others what we would like others to do for us.

The opposite of cooperation is linked to feelings selfish and, on the other hand, non-cooperation supposes a disinterest towards the needs of others. When we speak of help or cooperation we should not think exclusively in humans, since there are animals that have collaborative attitudes (usually those species that live in groups and that have patterns of coexistence, like chimpanzees or elephants).

International cooperation

Today the world is spoken of as a global village and in this context the concept of international cooperation has been consolidated in recent decades. exist

organisms and entities whose primary function is to provide support to those countries or regions whose inhabitants cannot meet their basic needs. In fact, there is the figure of the aid worker, someone who voluntarily and altruistically contributes his grain of sand in favor of some draft humanitarian.

International cooperation presents multiple variants: educational, health, agriculture, in relation to natural disasters, refugees, environmental causes and a long etcetera. It is in this context where NGOs have appeared, non-profit entities that try to alleviate the deficiencies of those groups most in need.

From an international perspective, there is a project to allocate 0.7% of the GDP of the most advanced nations to cooperation. However, the nations that meet this commitment are still very few.

Although the need to cooperate with the most disadvantaged nations is a widely shared idea, there are still a whole series of obstacles or problems in this regard: doubts in relation to aid money, possible fraud, as well as the fear that aid recipients will end up living on international aid and not on their own own resources. In this sense, some consider that the best way of cooperation is summarized with the following approach: give a gift Fish a man and you will give him food for a day but if you really want to help him you better teach him how to fish.

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Issues in Cooperation