Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
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1. This report analyzes in detail the problem of the improper use of criminal law by state and non-state actors with the aim of criminalizing the work of human rights …
If we look at our history during the last two decades of the 20th century, we can see that 1980 was a year marked by two events of crucial importance: …
The effects of fear are discussed at a social level, as an impediment to processing the shared past, integrating the present with history, and resolving differences on the basis of …
Dominique Moïsi in her 2007 article "THE CLASH OF EMOTIONS" and the following year Tzvetan Todorov with his book "LA PEUR DES BARBARES" (The Fear of Barbarians) examine the global …
Those who work hard to keep young Peruvians ignorant have done an excellent job. CONGRATULATIONS! It is clear they have applied themselves fully. In the Americas, only students from Haiti …
"Memoria. Revista sobre cultura, democracia y derechos humanos" is an academic publication that seeks to contribute reflections to the necessary and urgent public debate in a country marked by two …
"Memoria. Revista sobre cultura, democracia y derechos humanos" is an academic publication that seeks to contribute reflections to the necessary and urgent public debate in a country marked by two …
"Memoria. Revista sobre cultura, democracia y derechos humanos" is an academic publication that seeks to contribute reflections to the necessary and urgent public debate in a country marked by two …
"Memoria. Revista sobre cultura, democracia y derechos humanos" is an academic publication that seeks to contribute reflections to the necessary and urgent public debate in a country marked by two …
"Memoria. Revista sobre cultura, democracia y derechos humanos" is an academic publication that seeks to contribute reflections to the necessary and urgent public debate in a country marked by two …
This article analyzes the rondas campesinas as self-defense institutions created by highland communities in Peru. The case study focuses on the rondas of the community of La Toma, Cajamarca, in …
"Memoria. Revista sobre cultura, democracia y derechos humanos" is an academic publication that seeks to contribute reflections to the necessary and urgent public debate in a country marked by two …
The final report of Peru's Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación is a central document for thinking about twentieth-century Peru and for envisioning a more just history in the century …
What do the conclusions contained in the CVR's final report mean for an institution like the IDL, whose identity is in part that of a human rights organization and which, …
Almost two years after being established, and with only a few months remaining before completing its work, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) has begun to disseminate, through its spokespersons, …
This work grew out of conversations with the DFID staff and aims to address the following need: "International cooperation requires a deep understanding of the complex and changing nature of …
Juan José Gorriti, a telephone workers' union leader, took over as General Secretary of the CGTP three years ago. Since then, he has organized eight departmental mobilizations, and this week …
The article offers the study of a singular case rather than a conceptual approach to the problem. Although in Peru, as in other places, impunity is a corrosive factor in …
This essay seeks to discuss the relations between State and society in Peru, looking for the connections that exist between politics and everyday life. The common tendency is to separate: …
Since the historic July 18, 1977, there had not been such a broad mobilization — one that managed to overcome divisions and differences — under very different conditions from that …
The work begins by posing a series of questions, which are answered in broad and detailed fashion as the pages progress; these are: What does democracy offer to stop the …
Since July 1980, Peru has lived six years of constitutionally democratic life, an unusual phenomenon in our existence as a country during this century and much of the last. The …
This text summarizes a vital commitment and a practical experience, intimately linked to the drama that increasingly envelops the daily life of the most humble Peruvians. It is a polemical …
An independent commission publishes its findings on the murder of eight journalists. Nearly four months after the murder of eight Peruvian journalists in the Andean department of Ayacucho, where the …