La justicia indígena en el discurso de la Corte Constitucional ecuatoriana.

Abstract

This research is an analysis of the decisions issued by the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, the objective of the research is to know the image that the Court has on indigenous justice. The decisions of the Court that have been used are between 2009 – a year after the enforcement of the Constitution of the Republic, until July 2019. For this analysis a background on the history of indigenous justice in general was taken into account, as well as brief explanations on how indigenous peoples were forced to change and what can be understood by indigenous justice. Legal pluralism is also an important topic on this research, being the recognition of pluralism what allows the coexistence of both ordinary and indigenous justice in a determined territory or space. To talk about pluralism wouldn’t be complete without talking about interculturality, it is an extense topic but for the purpose of this research it is explained briefly. Interculturality is a term that gathers more than the recognition of diversity, it is the effective dialogue between different cultures and at the same time a means to reach a new model of State.