PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH WITH NATIVE COMMUNITY OF KAHNAWAKE CREATES INNOVATIVE CODE OF RESEARCH ETHICS

Participatory research requires ethical guidelines to incorporate the needs of the partners, i.e., the researchers and the community. This p aper describes the background, development and implementation of an in novative Code of Research Ethics developed for a participatory researc h project with a Native community in Canada. The document ensures that responsibility and control will be shared by both researchers and com munity throughout the project including joint publication of the resul ts. It defines community control of data, means of resolving dissensio n at time of publication, incorporation of new researchers and the dif ferences between community-based and academic researchers.