Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GROUNDHR (Challenges of Grounding Universal Human Rights. Indigenous epistemologies of human rightsand intercultural dialogue in consultation processes on natural resource exploitation)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2016-09-01 do 2018-08-31
During the project, three periods of field research was conducted in Colombia: an explorative research stay to gain access to a case study, a longer stay during which contacts and preliminary research was conducted with indigenous communities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta who are threatened by the Los Besotes Dam and a final stay regarding the impact of mining at the Sierra Nevada. In Guatemala, the research was focused on the Xalalá dam project in Maya Q’eqchi’ territory. This research build further on previous conducted international consultancy legal anthropological research on the impact of this dam on the human rights of the threatened communities. During GROUNDHR one research stay took place during which interviews, workshops and seminars were organized with indigenous elders and authorities (man and women). However, the consolidation of the empirical research data was not achieved during this project.
Several non-scientific contributions were published: 1)A blog (2017) ""Ríos: seres vivientes y personalidad jurídica. Nuevos argumentos legales en la defensa de los territorios de los pueblos indígenas"", regarding the ground breaking legal developments that grants rights to rivers at Plaza Publica, a recognized Guatemalan independent research and journalism blog, which was wildly re-published among other blogs and platforms in Latin America.
2) A discussion note, co-written with a Colombian Indigenous Judge of the recently created Chamber for the Recognition of Truth, Responsibility and the Determination of Facts and Conduct of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), about indigenous visions and practices regarding post-conflict processes and the connection with extractive industries L. Viaene and B. Izquierdo (2018), Decolonizing transitional justice from indigenous territories, Peace in Progress, N 34, Instituto Catalán Internacional para la Paz (ICIP) (also published in Spanish)
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