Code of Conduct
The first right is to be part of a community.
Codes of conduct often resemble Article 12 of the National Constitution of Colombia:
"No one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance, torture, or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment."
When the Wayúu indigenous people, who endured 500 years of colonialism in Colombia, had to translate this article, they wrote:
"No one shall carry another above their heart or harm them in their person, even if they think and speak differently."
The accumulated experience of the world's most diverse communities has independently led to a universal obligation to give and receive, and the development of reciprocity technologies that reactivate bonds through exchange rituals (festive or coercive). The Bayes Plurinational event itself is a festive ritual aimed at creating and recreating our bonds.
When conflicts arise, communities resolve them by activating the three possible types of relationships: (->) gestures, acts, or gifts that the causing party offers to the affected party; (<- ->) mutual exchange between both parties, renewing the cycle of exchanges; (<-) and assistance that the affected party offers to the causing party to modify the behaviors that led to the conflict.
Principles of Good Living (Aymara)
- 1. Suma Umaña: Knowing how to drink. Water is the source of all life.
- 2. Suma Manq'aña: Knowing how to eat. Our food is the life of other beings.
- 3. Suma Thokoña: Knowing how to dance. The body connects us with the cosmos.
- 4. Suma Ikiña: Knowing how to sleep. Before midnight, to recover the energy of two days.
- 5. Suma Irnakaña: Knowing how to work. Our actions fulfill a role in the community.
- 6. Suma Lupiña: Knowing how to meditate. Silence restores balance.
- 7. Suma Amuyaña: Knowing how to think. Without losing reason, we walk the path of the heart.
- 8. Suma Munaña Munayasiña: Knowing how to love and be loved. Coexisting through complementarity.
- 9. Suma Ist'aña: Knowing how to listen. Perceiving even that which does not speak or reveal itself.
- 10. Suma Aruskipaña: Knowing how to speak. Our actions are written in the hearts of others.
- 11. Suma Samkasiña: Knowing how to dream. Dreaming is the seed of a new reality.
- 12. Suma Sarnaqaña: Knowing how to walk. Fatigue does not exist for those who know how to walk.
- 13. Suma Churaña, Suma Katukaña: Knowing how to give and knowing how to receive with joy and gratitude because life is the union of many beings and forces.
License
This Code of Conduct has been adapted from the indigenous cosmovisions of Abya Yala
and is distributed under the Creative Commons Zero license.