This dissertation examines how conflicts between the Peruvian State and the
indigenous Awajún people can be transformed and further escalation prevented
by focusing on rights claims. This study analyses the Awajún’s main rights
claims, their perspective on their relationship with the Peruvian State including
the main causes of conflict and their views on what the key aspects of conflict
transformation with the State should be.
The research is focused on the perspective of the indigenous people, not only
in the light of the research objectives but also because a decolonized approach
that gives voice to the indigenous perspective is the most culturally appropriate
approach for an outsider researcher to carry out research with indigenous
people. In order to ensure a decolonized research design, one-on-one, in-depth
interviews were selected for data collection since these allow a maximum input
of the participants and provide the kind of detailed and rich information that is
required for this study.
Findings illustrate that a rights-based conflict transformation approach, which
applies the typical aspects of a rights-based approach focusing on the specific
collective rights claims of the Awajún as well as the main principles of conflict
transformation focusing on improving relationships, offers the best prospects of
preventing violent confrontations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17343 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Lefevre, Natalie |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, University of Bradford, Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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