Rebuilding Trust in Socio-Environmental Conflicts
- Hub
- Activity
- Model
- Legislative Theater
- Actors
- Marginalized communities
- Facilitators
- Purpuse
- Strengthening democracy
- Democratic improvement
- Democratic education
- Citizen empowerment and capacity building
- Deliberative skills
This experience in Buenaventura, Colombia, is a powerful example of how Legislative Theatre can serve as a tool for promoting dialogue, rebuilding trust, and addressing socio-environmental issues in complex and often violent contexts.
KEY ELEMENTS
- Deep connection with the local community and its socio-environmental context.
- Empowerment and training of local facilitators.
- Inclusion of diverse perspectives and voices.
- Recognition of the links between violence and natural resource exploitation.
- The role of art and theatre in expanding civic participation.
OUTCOMES
- Legislative Theatre has proven to be an impactful method for engaging people in meaningful conversations about their realities, especially when integrated with local culture and lived experiences. In contexts of crisis and low institutional trust, it becomes a powerful tool to rebuild dialogue and participation through culturally sensitive and inclusive practices.
- In Buenaventura, the process demonstrated that art and theatre can reshape participatory dynamics and offer communities democratic tools to better express, negotiate, and respond to the challenges they face—particularly in cities where civic engagement remains fragile or underdeveloped.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
People Powered (Katy Rubin), Politize, FIMA NGO, Extituto de Política Abierta
KEY CONCEPTS
Contextual: Access to clean water, natural resource exploitation, environment, violence.
On Democracy: Participatory dialogue, decentralization, civic inclusion, citizen engagement.
