At the AIA Fellow Colloquium, Heloise Weber, Associate Professor at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia, presented a current paper she is working on, which is part of a larger book project. She examines the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development (UNDRD), which was adopted in 1986, and places it in the historical context of the political project of international development after 1945. This project was organised amidst anti-colonial struggles for more just social and economic relations. For many analysts and practitioners, the UNDRD stands for a progressive development agenda, and this is reflected in support for contemporary moves aimed at turning it into a Convention. According to Heloise, the UNDRD represents a culmination of attempts to consolidate structural injustices that undermine the long-standing struggles of post-colonial states. She points out that 1986 United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development and its commitment to a ‘new international economic order’ contrasts starkly with the political sensibilities underpinning the New International Economic Order (NIEO) of 1970s Third Worldism. She takes these considerations as an opportunity to emphasise, in very fundamental terms, why critical analysis of the processes and justifications of the organization of structural injustice is imperative to better understand the colonial logics of the ‘Right to Development’. Such an understanding can also serve as the basis for postcolonial repair and redistribution while working toward re-building a common humanity, grounded in a commitment to fundamental entitlements for all to live in dignity. In this context, the Fellow Round also critically discussed current global trade policy and Agenda 2030, as public discourse often overlooks the fact that these are in many ways more influenced by neoliberal frameworks than by the idea of fair redistribution.