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Identify biotic (living organisms) and abiotic (characteristics of the physical medium) components in a territory to analyse interactions, dynamics, and spatial patterns.
Identify components and dynamics of social systems within a territory and analyse their relationship patterns, as well as the population’s cultural traits and identities.
Analyse cultural and natural elements that represent a territory’s identity and understand the transformation of such territory by its inhabitants, as well as its influence on their relationship building.
Identify and understand conflict-generating factors within territories, their causes,consequences, and their outreach in manifestation.
Identify and analyse the effects of armed conflict on the social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics in the local context, as well as the existing physical risks within the territory.
Understand and map global risk-triggering phenomena to analyse their impact and/or influence on market changes, their processes, standards, and/or regulations.
Identificar los componentes bióticos (organismos vivos) y los componentes abióticos (características del medio físico) de un territorio y analizar las interacciones, dinámicas y los patrones espaciales.
Identificar los componentes y dinámicas del sistema social que habita un territorio, analizar sus patrones relacionales, así como los rasgos culturales y de identidad de la población.
Analizar los elementos culturales y naturales que representan la identidad de un territorio y entender cómo este ha sido apropiado y transformado por sus habitantes, así como su influencia en sus formas de relacionamiento.
Identificar y entender factores que ocasionan conflictos en los territorios, sus causas, consecuencias y alcance de sus manifestaciones.
Identificar y analizar los efectos del conflicto armado sobre las dinámicas sociales, culturales, políticas y económicas en los contextos locales y cuáles son los riesgos físicos existentes en el territorio.
Mapear y entender los fenómenos y disparadores de los riesgos globales, para analizar su impacto y/o influencia en los cambios de los mercados, sus procesos, estándares y/o regulaciones.
Episteme’s research methodology stems from a systematic understanding of the territory, meaning that its functioning depends on the articulation and synergy of all its parts. This facilitates the identification of singular elements in the territorialization process and is sensitive to local dynamics, as well as intervention opportunities that might improve the capacities of local and foreign agents towards peace construction and intercultural development.
Our territorial studies are implemented through discourse analysis and documentary inspection, such as systematisation of information in timelines, facilitating the understanding of discursive transformations from the involved actors.
Reflexivity and participant observation are ethnographic elements that acknowledge local perception to describe and analyse symbolic representation systems constructed by the inhabitants of a territory. To make this possible, instruments like interviews, polls, focal groups, and social cartography are used. This enables the understanding of the territory from a communitarian logic, facilitating the formulation of relationship processes towards the transformation of conflicts, peace construction, and territorial development through synergy and the will of local institutional and corporate actors.
The study of territorial dynamics and the transformation of their elements from a bottom-up and systemic approach are the mechanisms that allow us confidence in constructing multi-actor and multi-capital initiatives, which transform the local context through the generation of ideas and projects responding to needs in human, relational, economic, environmental, intellectual, and industrial fields.
