Consolidating Peace and Indigenous Rights through Higher Education - a Biocultural Indigenous University in the Andean Amazon of Colombia

通过高等教育巩固和平与土著权利 - 哥伦比亚安第斯亚马逊地区的一所生物文化土著大学

• 批准号: AH/W009862/1
• 负责人: Matthew Gillett
• 金额: $ 6.39万
• 依托单位: University of Essex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW009862%2F1
• 关键词: Consolidating; Peace; Indigenous; Rights; through

The research aims to advance understanding of Indigenous peoples' rights to education, culture, and a healthy environment. It will explore the possibility of a rights-based, Indigenous-led, and autonomous form of tertiary education in Colombia, focusing on the establishment of a "Biocultural Indigenous University" ("BIU") in the Andean Amazon of Colombia. By examining inclusive and Indigenous-centred tertiary education, the project contributes to United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 16 ("SDG 16") on peace, justice and strong institutions.The project will occur in the post-conflict transitional justice setting of Colombia. After decades of armed conflict, Colombia faces an ongoing struggle to cement peace and security. The 2016 Peace Accord identified Indigenous communities as a particularly vulnerable group. It also committed the Colombian Government to a Special Rural Education Plan, seeking to close the gap between rural and urban education, which is particularly significant for the largely rurally-based Indigenous groups. The possibility of creating an Indigenous-led and autonomous form of educational institution, as exemplified by the development of the BIU, is important given the precarious position of Indigenous peoples in the Andean Amazon. By placing Indigenous culture and pedagogy at the centre of a tertiary educational institution, the BIU model can strengthen the preservation and inter-generational transfer of Indigenous knowledge and learning. Given the traditional Indigenous respect for their land and surrounding ecosystem, the BIU model and curriculum offers a pathway to ecologically centred sustainable development.The BIU model can promote peace and justice among Indigenous communities. By establishing locally-based career paths (whether at the BIU itself or on ecological or cultural enterprises that it will support), it provides opportunities for Indigenous youth to escape the cycle of violence, criminality, and alienation that has been prevalent in Colombia over recent decades. The Research Network will link Indigenous representatives involved in the BIU project with international researchers and human rights experts (specialising in education, environmental, cultural and Indigenous rights, and spatial design). Through knowledge exchange and best practices sharing, the Research Network will address the key issues of (i) how an Indigenous-led university can be established and recognised as an autonomous institution; (ii) the implications of establishing an Indigenous-led university for the Indigenous peoples' rights to education, culture and a healthy environment; and (iii) a rights-based framework for Indigenous-led autonomous tertiary education.The Research Network activities include:(i) a 5-day workshop in Colombia bringing together Indigenous representatives and experts (including the investigators) on education, cultural, and environmental rights, to share knowledge and lessons learned in these respects; (ii) meetings with Colombian officials from the Ministries of Education and the Interior (Indigenous Affairs Division);(iii) engagement with Special Rapporteurs (in the field of cultural rights; on the rights of Indigenous peoples; and on the right to education) at the Human Rights Council in Geneva to present the BIU case-study and its link with their respective mandates; and(iv) an online presentation by the research team as part of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre Speaker Series to engage researchers involved in promoting the rights to education, culture and a healthy environment.The knowledge generated by the research network in the context of the BIU will be used to assist initiatives in Colombia seeking to establish Indigenous-led autonomous tertiary institutions. The knowledge will also be disseminated more broadly, to academics and those seeking to establish similar Indigenous-led tertiary education institutions in the Amazon and other regions of the World.

该研究旨在增进对原住民教育、文化和健康环境权利的了解。它将探索哥伦比亚以权利为基础、土著主导的自主形式高等教育的可能性，重点是在哥伦比亚安第斯亚马逊地区建立一所“生物文化土著大学”（“BIU”）。通过审查包容性和以原住民为中心的高等教育，该项目有助于实现联合国关于和平、正义和强大机构的可持续发展目标 16（“SDG 16”）。该项目将在哥伦比亚冲突后过渡司法环境中进行。经过数十年的武装冲突，哥伦比亚面临着巩固和平与安全的持续斗争。 2016 年和平协议将原住民社区确定为特别脆弱的群体。它还承诺哥伦比亚政府实施一项特别农村教育计划，寻求缩小农村和城市教育之间的差距，这对于主要居住在农村的土著群体尤为重要。鉴于安第斯亚马逊地区原住民的不稳定地位，建立原住民主导的自治形式的教育机构（BIU 的发展就是一个例子）的可能性非常重要。通过将土著文化和教育学置于高等教育机构的中心，BIU 模式可以加强土著知识和学习的保存和代际传承。鉴于原住民传统上尊重其土地和周围生态系统，BIU 模式和课程提供了一条以生态为中心的可持续发展之路。BIU 模式可以促进原住民社区之间的和平与正义。通过建立基于当地的职业道路（无论是在 BIU 本身还是在其支持的生态或文化企业），它为土著青年提供了摆脱近几十年来哥伦比亚普遍存在的暴力、犯罪和疏远循环的机会。研究网络将把参与 BIU 项目的原住民代表与国际研究人员和人权专家（专门从事教育、环境、文化和原住民权利以及空间设计）联系起来。通过知识交流和最佳实践共享，研究网络将解决以下关键问题：（i）如何建立原住民领导的大学并被认可为自治机构； (ii) 建立一所土著人领导的大学对土著人民的教育、文化和健康环境权利的影响；研究网络活动包括：(i) 在哥伦比亚举办为期 5 天的研讨会，将教育、文化和环境权利方面的土著代表和专家（包括调查人员）聚集在一起，分享这些方面的知识和经验教训； (ii) 与哥伦比亚教育部和内政部（土著事务司）官员会面；(iii) 在日内瓦人权理事会与特别报告员（文化权利领域、土著人民权利领域和受教育权领域）接触，介绍 BIU 案例研究及其与各自任务的联系； (iv) 研究小组的在线演示，作为埃塞克斯大学人权中心演讲系列的一部分，让研究人员参与促进教育、文化和健康环境的权利。BIU 背景下的研究网络产生的知识将用于协助哥伦比亚寻求建立土著人领导的自治高等教育机构的举措。这些知识也将更广泛地传播给学者和那些寻求在亚马逊和世界其他地区建立类似的土著主导的高等教育机构的人。