sophia close - how can development transform conflict in indigenous communities?
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Can development transform conflict in Indigenous communities?
Development Futures Conference, Sydney20 - 21 November 2013
Sophia Close, PhD Candidate
ANU National Centre for Indigenous Studies
National Centre for Indigenous Studies
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Key research question
Can Indigenous communities better engage with development systems to transform conflict and create self-determining development?
National Centre for Indigenous StudiesSource: Close 2010
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Development-related Conflict
Indigenous peoples experience peace and conflict in multiple ways; my research focuses on conflict that is exacerbated or triggered by development.
National Centre for Indigenous StudiesSource: Close 2010
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Initial Field Results: Timor-Leste
• Timing and sustainability
• Culture and language• Leadership and elites • Duplication and gaps• Poor donor
coordination• Many layers of
existing conflict
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Relationships
“Relationship is
paramount.”
International Development Practitioner 2009: Interview
National Centre for Indigenous StudiesSource: Close 2010
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Consent / Choice
Free prior and informed consent is a decision-making process that does not involve coercion, is made before interventions begin and includes understanding the full range of potential impacts.
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“Capacity Building”
“We are driven by models which do not apply here. When people do it themselves they do it better”.
Timorese Development Practitioner 2010: Interview
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Self-determined Development
“Self-determination is also about the right to development…the right to make decisions that determine the path development should take”. (Nuttall 2008)
National Centre for Indigenous StudiesSource: Close 2010