Limitations for the Application of Indigenous Justice in Ecuador

Abstract

The application of indigenous justice in Ecuador is a topic of interest given its implications for the social life of the nation. The problem focuses on the fact that this constitutes a part of the country's cultural heritage, but in turn, sometimes contradicts the so-called ordinary justice. Due to the, it is proposed as the objective of the investigation to propose the most appropriate actions to mitigate the limitations of the application of indigenous justice in Ecuador. Empirical methods such as the interview, the cause-effect diagram, and multi-criteria decision methods such as Promethee and Vikor were used for this. It was obtained as a result that the main actions must strengthen the communication system through dialogues and conferences of judicial institutions, with the objective of Indigenous Justice, to increase the knowledge on that topic among the members of the society, and encourage the protection of the ethnical minorities and, in turn, set the necessary limits in each territory, to prevent the violation of rights and impunity, and to achieve that the indigenous communities comply with all the stipulated on the Constitution, the international treaties that Ecuador has signed, considering the indigenous justice as an immediate source of right.