New tool: "Where there are no judges or police: The administration of indigenous justice in Peru"

"Where there are no judges or police: The administration of indigenous justice in Peru" is a collaborative effort between the Ethnic Council of the Kichwa Peoples of the Amazon, the Federation of Native Communities of Ucayali and Tributaries (FECONAU), Forest Peoples Programme and the Institute of Legal Defense (IDL). This manual, through a series of concepts and guidelines, seeks to contribute to the safe exercise by indigenous communities of their right to indigenous justice, prioritising the resolution of conflicts through traditional and peaceful mechanisms, and without contemplating violence or other types of aggression that could be used against them, whether through criminalisation by the state justice system or other types of harassment.

To exercise indigenous justice is also to exercise the right to self-determination. For this reason, this manual invites community leaders, as well as the authorities of their representative Indigenous organisations, to a process of broader reflection on the advances and current challenges for the implementation of Indigenous justice in their own contexts, where there are no judges or police. Likewise, to think about how to articulate and ensure the forms of indigenous justice coexist with the state justice system in Peru.

You can download the publication (Spanish only) for digital use and for print.