12/04/2015
Do not monopolize your knowledge nor impose arrogantly your techniques, but respect and combine your skills with the knowledge of the researched or grassroots communities, taking them as full partners and co-researchers. Do not trust elitist versions of history and science which respond to dominant interests, but be receptive to counter-narratives and try to recapture them. Do not depend solely on your culture to interpret facts, but recover local values, traits, beliefs, and arts for action by and with the research organizations. Do not impose your own ponderous scientific style for communicating results, but diffuse and share what you have learned together with the people, in a manner that is wholly understandable and even literary and pleasant, for science should not be necessarily a mystery nor a monopoly of experts and intellectuals.
This statement is a provocative stance to all students out there who have acquired knowledge and skills in colleges and have decided to keep that knowledge to themselves and never shared it with the communities to help develop their communities. It is a challenging avowal to all youths in communities who have for so long decided to monopolize their experiences on finding solutions to day-to-day problems affecting community livelihoods.
RPU is inviting every youth and tertiary students for participatory action researches on 1) Governance and Policy issues
2) Natural Resources Management issues
3) Sustainable Development issues
If you have or experiencing problems that fall under any of the above thematic please get in-touch with RPU to begin in-depth researches (projects) for the betterment of your communities. RPU will assist in mobilizing resources for the researches.
Contact us through emailing us to researchandparticipation2015@gmail.com or inbox us
