Castañeda Ruiz, Hugo NelsonHerrera Mejia, Jhonny AlexanderMuñoz Zapata, MauricioCastañeda Ruiz, Hugo Nelson2023-05-232023-05-232024978958763721210.58863/20.500.12424/4284676http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/4284676We reflect on the need for territorial intervention methodologies that allow for community participation and include criteria for the protection of life, autonomy and traditional knowledge, among others. Without these mechanisms, practices such as: exploitation of resources and knowledge without communityconsent, homicide of social leaders, forced displacement of communities and contamination, among others, which are common in Colombia and other countries when interventions are carried out in the territories, will continue to be perpetuated. Two methodologies that allow community empowerment and direct participation in projects are given as examples: biocultural community protocols and territorial intelligence, whose strengths are centered on a territorial reading from the complexity and processes of dialogue and deliberation between actors and agents that allow the adoption of ethical and bioethical criteria applied to territorial management. Their weaknesses are: the scarce knowledge of agents and actors in some countries that do not allow a better adoption and the pace of intervention that may not coincide with the time and costs required by the agents, which would lead to inadequate practices that blur these mechanisms.spaEditorial Bonaventuriana, Universidad de San Buenaventura Colombia & Globethics PublicationsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/bioethicsterritorial intelligencebiocultural community protocolsterritorial interventiontraditional knowledgeBioethicsBook chapter