The Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the face of the Free Self-Determination, Autonomy, and Territoriality

Abstract

The Free, Prior and Informed Consultation (FPIC) has since the 1980s become an instrument for the protection of rights that allows resistance to asymmetrical power situations. However, this FPIC has been introduced into various legal systems, public policies or management tools as a strategy that benefits indigenous peoples per se, but there has been little to generate about the discussion of its origins, strategies and founding elements. Nevertheless, so little has been said about their origins, their strategies and their basic elements. Hence this article generates a theoretical exercise where the prior, free and informed prior, free and informed consultation is reflected on the founding philosophical and theoretical elements in order to deepen and identify these elements that contribute to the development of this tool especially in its relationship with free self-determination, autonomy and territoriality.