PEACEBUILDING FROM TRAINING PEACEMAKING CIRCLE FACILITATORS: A case of ethnic conflict in the Brazilian Amazon
Peacebuilding. Circle processes. Restorative Justice. Ethnic conflict. Community conflict.
"When I was a child, the lake on the street of my house was beautiful, full of royal victories, water hyacinths, herons and, at night, bright alligator eyes. ”So begins the text of that research that has been molded as local crafts, from the perspective of Charles Wright Mills. The narrative presents a conflicting situation, which occurred at school environment, between an indigenous teacher and São Miguel community located at Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve (RESEX), in the Brazilian Amazon. Our goal is to describe the peace-building process of São Miguel community by training peace-building facilitators and restorative justice. For it, we chosed the concept of Peacebuilding in a reading of John Paul Lederach's School of Conflict Transformation. Initially, we intend to locate the conflicting issue on a present plane by identifying dimensions in the past plane that lead us to possible structural causes of the conflict, and dimensions in the future plane highlighting the interventions made, recent changes, and what the community elects as a desirable future for that local context. From a qualitative point of view, the research will focus on pertinent literature, as well as on the speech and documents of the community and institutions involved. We stress the importance of consent of people affected by the conflict at all times of the research; As well as, although we have theoretical contributions, we highlight the importance of local knowledge for the construction of our narrative and our results, among which are two proposals for conflict analysis in a community context.