Cordillera Studies Center--Research

By the end of 2003, based on the research activities going on in the Center and activities conducted by Working Groups, it was clear that researches could be organized according to the following thrusts:

Biodiversity Conservation;
Ethnicity Studies;
Governance and Public Policy; and
Local Language and Literature.

(There is an "others" category for researches that could not be subsumed theoretically in the meantime.) Currently the Working Groups headed by Leaders/Convenors lead in taking steps towards concretizing each thrust into a research program. For each of these thrusts, a critical mass of the faculty shall commit itself to engage in a series of activities aimed at fully conceptualizing a research program. It goes without saying that this critical mass of faculty are made up of those that see the research programs as avenues for both theorizing and application of principles pertinent to the academic programs being offered. Expectedly, progress and development for each program shall happen at an uneven pace.

The faculty shall also find the programs as anchors for new researches that could be pursued. This way, even individual researches could be viewed (justified for Faculty Grants or Prof Chairs, etc) according to the CSC's thrusts, which are UP Baguio's thrusts.

To support research activities, the Center maintains a library, which is both a research and special collection library for books, non-book materials, unpublished sources, maps, photographs and slides on Cordillera communities. The library holdings have steadily accumulated into an incomparable collection of Cordillera ethnographic materials on development issues, economic change, social transformation and upland resource management. The library now serves as a Cordillera regional information, resource and referral center.

In order to advance networking and collaboration among scholars locally and internationally, the Cordillera Studies Center grants research affiliation to students, faculty, and researchers with particular interest in the Cordillera.

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CSC RESEARCH THRUSTS
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION	'Biodiversity' is a topic that was expressed by the faculty of the department of biology in the CSC agenda setting in 2001. Faculty members pursued individual researches even much earlier. Recently, the Working Group was revitalized to consciously develop institutional research programming and project development. The Biodiversity Conservation Working Group is presently composed of faculty members from the three colleges. For coordinated planning and regular updating, there is a Core Team of point persons coming from each college.
ETHNICITY STUDIES	Among the issues and concerns that this group is expected consider is the conceptualization of possible configurations of the so-called "ethnicity studies" that is UP Baguio's niche. The CSC shall provide support to enable the Working Group to push its agenda towards concrete goals that could be met in the immediate (2-3 years) and the long term (10 years from now) to being UP Baguio closer to the idea of "ethnicity studies as UP Baguio's niche."
GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC POLICY	The Governance and Public Policy (GPP) Program in the past was a two-phased research program headed by former UP Professor Dr. Steven A. Rood. Funding was obtained from the Ford Foundation (FF) and The Asia Foundation (TAF). Phase 1 was from 1987 to March 1991 and focused on the "Issues on Cordillera Autonomy." Phase 2 was from 1991 to 1993 and studied the "Citizens, Local Officials, Non-Government Organizations, and their Impact on Development Policies in Ifugao and Benguet." Just as the previous GPP Program was a demonstration of UP Baguio's leadership as an academic community to respond to the needs of the day and theorize about development and the same time (i.e. the first phase faced one of the hottest issues of the day which was Cordillera Regional Autonomy, while the second phase dealt with changes brought about by the then newly-enacted Republic Act 7160 or the 1991 Local Government Code), the present program is similarly conceptualized.
LOCAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE	The primary goal of the program is to contribute to international and national efforts towards preservation, enhancement, and promotion of indigenous cultures. It started with phase one in 2001-2002 which focused on the retrieval and collection of extant indigenous literatures in the provinces of the Cordillera, Ilocos Region, Pangasinan, and Batanes Islands.