Acceso a la Educación Superior de Pueblos y Nacionalidades: estado De las Políticas Públicas

This two-volume publication arose from the urgent need to establish a framework for cooperation that strengthens social capacities for dialogue and negotiation as a democratic mechanism for conflict management, promotes participatory democracy and peaceful and lasting dialogue on public policies, based on respect for human rights with a focus on rights, interculturality, and gender. Three universities—Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Universidad Central, and Universidad Politécnica Salesiana—and GIZ have brought together teachers and researchers from different fields of the social sciences to reflect on the fundamental issues of the dialogue process that emerged in Ecuador after the national strike of June 2022. Social organizations and indigenous movements (represented by CONAIE, FENOCIN, and FEINE) sat down at the negotiating table with the national government, following the intervention of the Church and with the support of international cooperation through the European Union and GIZ. Dialogues for Peace: Perspectives from Diversity is, on the one hand, an assessment of Ecuador in terms of numbers and socioeconomic reality and, on the other, a valuable contribution to the roadmap that both governments and Ecuadorian society must follow to build an intercultural Ecuador.