„Justice is achieved if peace is restored“ - Indigenous Justice, Legal Pluralism, and Change in

The questions the study will seek to answer are: What kinds of legal principles and norms operate in the different communities? What are the most frequent types of conflict and how are they resolved? What are the similarities and differences between the indigenous legal cultures under scrutiny? What is the influence of state law and the state judiciary on indigenous cultures? Is there anything to. [...] 37 7 the same sorts of factors that operate in Peru: the state legal order, the economic environment, the migration of the rural population to the cities, education, military service, the work of evangelical churches, the media (notably radio and television), and the increased integration of indigenous communities into overall society brought about by modern communications (the Internet, mobile ph. [...] This trend is reflected, on the one hand, in the sometimes radical, ethnocentric discourse of certain political representatives of the indigenous population (notably those belonging to the CONAIE in Ecuador and the CUNARC in Peru37) and, on the other, in concrete attempts by the social base to reconstruct values and norms of customary law that had fallen into disuse.38 In multicultural societies,. [...] In the case of Ecuador, there was a special factor at work at the time of the interviews (2012): the national debate on the 2008 constitution would still have been fresh in the minds of the representatives of indigenous justice. [...] The executive council of the Peruvian judiciary (poder judicial) has issued a number of directives on intercultural judicial policy and this has resulted in structural changes in the judicial apparatus.66 Since the end of 2012, the functions of the National Bureau of the Justice of the Peace (ONAJUP67) have been expanded to include the promotion of indigenous justice.