DIALOG - Introducing an Ally

DIALOG is an inter-university, inter-institutional, cross-disciplinary and multi-sectoral cluster of 80 people—researchers, students, practitioners and analysts—from the academic milieu, consulting, government agencies and Indigenous organizations. These diverse stakeholders share the objectives of promoting, disseminating and renewing research relating to Indigenous peoples.

DIALOG is made up of a network of stakeholders from different regions and with various perspectives and research interests. It offers new services that are designed to highlight and promote scientific work relating to First Peoples within Québec, Canada, the Americas and worldwide; it serves as a forum, as a space for meeting, discussion, learning and partnership; it is a place for reflection and a platform for the development, deepening and renewal of knowledge.

DIALOG has been, since its creation in 2001, the point of intersection of a number of earlier experiences with teamwork and partnerships that resulted in collaborations between the academic and Indigenous milieus or in which DIALOG’s current members had worked together in the past. DIALOG is now building on all of these experiences and on the new capacities that they have helped to foster and develop.

We invite you to visit the website: www.reseaudialog.qc.ca

MISSION

TO DEVELOP the conditions for constructive, innovative and lasting dialogue among all the stakeholders involved in research from various regions, in order to revitalize and promote research relating to Indigenous peoples and contribute to the renewal of this research:

• By organizing scientific public events, colloquia and symposia in collaboration with Indigenous and academic partners;
• By regularly participating in the annual ACFAS conference (Congrès annuel de l’Association francophone pour le savoir);
• By fostering and strengthening collaborations between researchers in the context of new research projects;
• By exchanges of expertise and knowledge in the context of academic curricula;
• By providing additional financial support for partner activities that are in keeping with DIALOG’s mission in regard to research;
• By providing travel allowances to members and students who wish to present their research findings to Indigenous communities or Indigenous organizations.

TO DESIGN and promote new dissemination and synthesis tools to help publicize and highlight the scientific work of Québec researchers, the work of outside researchers whose field of study is Québec and the work of their colleagues and partners from various regions:

• The BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CODEX, which already includes more than 7,000 titles, is a unique database of scientific work on the First Peoples—First Nations, Inuit and Métis—since the nineteenth century.
• The WEB-ATLAS OF ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES OF QUÉBEC presents a series of interactive maps from statistical sources for each of the First Nations and Inuit communities of Québec.
• The RESEARCH DIRECTORY provides an overview of past and current research by including, within a relational database, research projects conducted by DIALOG members, student work and documents (reports, orientation papers, discussion papers, presentations, etc.) that describe the work carried out. The database also includes a collection of teaching materials developed by DIALOG researchers and dossiers on specific topics.

TO HELP Québec researchers become better positioned at the national, intercontinental and international levels by supporting discussion and exchange activities and international scientific meetings, by welcoming researchers and students from outside Québec and by fostering the collaboration of Québec researchers on national, intercontinental and international research teams.

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