ИСТИНА

Создание успешного сотрудничества и укрепление коммуникации между представителями коренных групп и учеными является основополагающим пунктом для современных и будущих исследований по всей Арктике. Во многих скандинавских странах необходимость разработки руководящих принципов и механизмов для установления взаимоотношений ученый-коренной житель в последнее время вызывает всё больший интерес в научных кругах. Социальные науки в частности признают локальное традиционное знание как решающий элемент в понимании и нахождении ответа на быстрые изменения окружающей среды. Повсеместно в Арктике ученые всё больше и больше признают значение работы с представителями коренных сообществ. Также, коренные сообщества принимают всё большее участие и играют всё более активную роль в привлечении ученых и научных проектов в их собственные общины. Хотя все эти изменения и происходят по всей Арктике, большинство наиболее удачных примеров сотрудничества такого формата приходится на Канадскую Арктику и Аляску. Эти примеры иллюстрируют сотрудничество, в котором коренные сообщества были центральным элементом проекта и выступали в качестве партнеров исследований, когда локальное и традиционное коренное знание было полностью вовлечено в научные результаты, и где сообщества были включены в результаты исследований как со-авторы или докладчики на конференциях.

Establishing authentic collaborations and strengthening communication between indigenous community members and researchers is crucial for current and future research across the Arctic. In many Nordic countries, calls for measures and mechanisms that provide guidance for indigenous-researcher relationships have recently seen greater interest and attention. The social sciences in particular have acknowledged the inclusion of local traditional knowledge as critical to understanding and responding to these rapid changes. Across the Arctic, scientists have been increasingly recognizing the value of working with indigenous community members. Similarly, indigenous communities are increasingly taking greater ownership over and playing a more active role in the rapid influx of research projects and researcher presence in their communities. Although these changes occur arctic-wide, many of the most well known examples of successful collaboration have emerged from the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. These examples illustrate collaborations in which communities were central to the projects as research partners, where local and traditional indigenous knowledge was fully incorporated into the research results, and where communities were included in the outcomes of the research as co-authors and conference presenters.

Executive Summary of the Project Indigenous populations in the Nordic regions are one of the key players in current and future research of the Arctic, as their traditional knowledge is critical to understanding the impacts of climate change in the region. The APECS community understands the importance of bringing indigenous and nonindigenous early career researchers and northern communities together to create a synergy with the overall long-term goal to be better prepared for and adapt to the rapidly changing Arctic environment and building better research relationships. The project and this report identified the following recommendations for future research: Researchers and educational institutions should assume greater responsibility to become informed and knowledgeable about community history, norms, expectations and concerns prior to field work; Educational Institutions should provide/create policy ensuring training of local research participants to ensure mutual benefits; Indigenous community members should become research partners and ensure local indigenous knowledge integration in the research project/plan from the outset; Researchers and community members should be mindful of different worldviews or epistemologies through all phases of research project; Research funding institutions should account for a long field season, return visits, compensation for local indigenous research partners, interview informants, costs of translations, interpreters as well as dissemination of results in all Nordic research; Strive for research sustainability or longevity of research initiatives to promote synthesis of research projects and results.