Chapter III. Yoi e Ipi: Governance of the Ticuna people: a socio-praxic vision in the collective purpose of the life plan

This research is based on the exchange of knowledge between the Ticuna community and academia in order to internationalize their worldview and government and to promote an effective intercultural dialogue under the principle of governance. Starting from a polycentric perspective, with a socio-praxical vision and under the theoretical principles of deliberative democracy, it addresses the decision-making process of this collective that is built as a dialogic structure and in which the action of governing with, from and for others are the basic pillar that sustains this alternative. This dialogic structure of “back and forth” offers the expected results among the Ticuna population and perpetuates the way in which this ancestral people relate to Mother Earth and among human beings throughout time.