Governance, Public Value, and Social Conflicts in Indigenous Territories: A Critical Review of the Literature from Latin America
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collaborative governance, public value, structural conflict, conflict resolution, interculturalityAbstract
The state’s management of social conflicts in Indigenous territories has attracted growing academic interest throughout Latin America. This article conducts a qualitative scoping review, grounded in thematic analysis, of 80 scholarly sources addressing governance, public value, and social conflict in contexts marked by historical exclusion. The review examines the main theories, methodological approaches, and analytical categories that clarify how the State generates, confronts, or transforms conflict dynamics in Indigenous and rural territories.
The findings reveal five critical gaps: limited theoretical integration, weak systematization of state-led initiatives, marginal visibility of Andean cases, the lack of an operational intercultural approach, and insufficient co-creation of public value. Drawing on these insights, the article outlines a research agenda that connects governance, territory, and interculturality, and proposes the Integrated Theory of Collaborative Conflict Management (ITCCM) as a conceptual framework to guide future empirical studies, including research in the Coata River basin (Peru).
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