Comprehensive Policy-Brief to the EU Commission: Roadmap to Decolonial Arctic Research

Herrmann, Thora Martina; Brunner Alfani, Francesca; Chahine, Anne; Doering, Nina; Dudeck, Stephan; Elster, Josef; Fjellheim, Eva; Henriksen, Jan Erik; Hermansen, Nina; Homberg, Aslak; Kramvig, Britt; Keskitalo, Anja Márjá Nystø; Omma, Elle Merete; Saxinger, Gertrude; Scheepstra, Annette; van der Schot, Jorrit (2023). Comprehensive Policy-Brief to the EU Commission: Roadmap to Decolonial Arctic Research. Áltá - Kárášjohka - Leipzig - Oulu: University of Oulu, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research- UFZ, The Indigenous Voices (IVO) research group – Álgoálbmogii jienat, Arctic University of Norway UiT, Saami Council 10.25365/phaidra.400

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The CO-CREATE network—a group of Indigenous and non-Indige- nous, academic and non-academic researchers, activists, and commu- nity members from the Arctic and European research institutions—work together to improve research relationships across ways of knowing in Arctic research, which often still operates within a framework embedded in colonial structures and methodologies. The network emerged after a workshop on Ethics and Methods in transformative Arctic Research (WEMA I), organised by the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Stud- ies (IASS)1 and the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in the fall of 2020 (for more information, see www.arctic-ethics. org). The network has since grown organically and now covers all Arctic regions.2 Over the past two and a half years, the CO-CREATE network has published an article on research funding in Arctic research (Doer- ing et al., 2022), organised several workshops and conference sessions engaging with different aspects of co-creation at international Arctic conferences and other events,3 and co-organised a second international Ethics and Methods Workshop (WEMA II). During WEMA II, a video project was co-conceptualised with partners from Ikaarvik, an independ- ent, Northern Indigenous-led non-profit (www.ikaarvik.org), bringing Indigenous voices from Arctic communities into the workshop to include a wider diversity of experiences with and views on Arctic research. Currently, the CO-CREATE network is engaged in the DÁVGI-project— Dávgi meaning “bow” in the Northern Sámi language—funded by the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. The DÁVGI-project aims to build networks for knowledge exchange and bridge academic science with Indigenous knowledge through co-creative research to strengthen bio-cultural diver- sity and Indigenous peoples’ rights in the Arctic.

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