Taiwan Indigenous Conserved Territories Union

= organization to protect the land tenure rights and well-being of Taiwanese indigenous communities

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member of the ICCA Consortium, which aims to protect Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Territories and Areas

Description

Sutej Hugu:

"The fundamental problem is that ICCAs have been deprived of collective land tenure and rights for natural resources in their traditional territories. Self-determination and self-government of ICCAs is the ultimate goal for us to achieve. Before it comes true, keeping a dynamic and adaptive vision of ICCAs is most important for its survival and revival.

In our internal discussion with younger generation, community-habitat collaborative commons and peer-to-peer collaborative commons is understood as a radical alternative to business corporation and administrative agency."

Strategy

"TICTU Restoration Strategic Action Plan for disrupted ICCAs

Following the holistic approach of rights-institution, knowledge-ethic, and livelihood-wellbeing, TICTU freely promotes the restoration strategic action plans on:

a. Tribal Participatory GIS for time-space adaptive information and collective memories. This is going along with tribal heritage keepers groups and tribal knowledge-base of accumulated contents. And, organize human sensors network of hunters, fishes, gatherers and farmers for long-term ecological monitoring on tribal community traditional territories.

b. Coordination with neighboring tribal communities on mutual recognition and shared governance of overlapping traditional territories. The negotiation starts from: 1. collective memory of migration routes; 2. historical tribal sites; and 3. contemporary living spaces. Mutual endorsement establishes the legitimacy of tribal sovereignties.

c. Community-habitat protocol based on tribal institution and local knowledge for interdependent economy and inter-species polity. The challenge will be how to transform the original oral tradition embedded in the deepest all-connectedness with land and nature into a post-development governance institution to keep our identity and living tradition.

d. Declaration of self-determination and self-government following into sovereignty treaty negotiation with the central government. In response to the Transitional Justice Initiative of current government, we appeal for 1. Recognition of tribal sovereignty and full indigenous rights; 2. Return of the traditional land and marine territories; 3. Reparation of colonial destruction and persecution; and 4. Collaboration on recovery and restoration processes and programs.

e. Reanimate tribal collaborative commons and social cooperative business. Lack of economic basis for ICCAs causes mostly by the loss of collective land tenure and resource rights on their traditional territories. This led to indigenous peoples been uprooted and on intubation as marginal and vulnerable groups. We seek for every opportunity of restoring a sustainable community livelihood on tribal collaborative commons as our visionary future."

More information

• Article: Launching the Taiwan Indigenous Conserved Territories Union. By Sutej Hugu.

URL = https://www.academia.edu/11588211/Launching_the_Taiwan_Indigenous_Conserved_Territories_Union