The State and Development Research Group (GIEDE for its acronym in Spanish) aims to provide solutions to:

1.    The state: relations between the state and society, public policies

2.    Social movements: autonomy, indigenous movement, plurinationality, interculturality, spirituality, religiosity, rural movements, collective action 

3.     Territory: autonomous decentralized governments, territory policies, regions, special regimes, globalization and territory processes

Coordinator:

Pablo Xavier Ortiz, Ph.D.

Contact:

portiz@ups.edu.ec

Lines of research 

Culture of ancestral communities

Social responsibility, redistribution of wealth, quality of life

State, citizenship, public policies and interculturality