Four
Worlds has been actively engaged in policy and intervention
research related to the solution of critical social
and economic problems for over twenty years. Recent
research projects include:
•
evaluating
and supporting a global research initiative in
eco-health for the International Development Research
Centre (IRDC) (Transdisciplinarity and Participation,
2001);
•
a
national project on Aboriginal family violence
and abuse that focus on both mapping the problem
and identifying strategies for intervention (Aboriginal
Domestic Violence in Canada); and
•
reviewing
Aboriginal community healing initiatives related
to the impact of residential school experience
in order to determine best intervention practices
(Mapping
the Healing Journey).
The
core of our work is based on many years of field testing
models, strategies and principles and further refining
them through systematic reflection. Both research
and development have been the generators of our work
and ideas since the earliest days of Four Worlds when
Indigenous elders told us that learning should be
the primary engine of our work.
