Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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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Work of the Dominican Sisters in Ayacucho
The Misioneras Dominicas del Rosario, since 1943, have contributed to the development, progress, and well-being of the people of Ayacucho, responding in a timely manner to the most pressing needs …
Peruvian Rural Youth: Between Two Paths
Following the agrarian reform (1969–1975), it has become increasingly difficult in the Peruvian case to precisely delineate a rural youth and even a rural society with a specific structure and …
The Repared Scholarship: Opportunity and Right in the Education Reparations Program
Research measuring how the Repared scholarship program has been functioning — a program that covers higher, technical, and university education studies at public and private institutions in Peru for victims …
Pedagogical Guide for the Use of Yuyanapaq: To Remember
This pedagogical guide aims to orient the use of the photo book "Yuyanapaq: para recordar" [Yuyanapaq: To Remember] for educational purposes, helping teachers use the book in the classroom and …
Open Secrets. Memory and Education in Public Schools in Lima and Ayacucho
This document has an exploratory character in that it presents advances in understanding a complex social phenomenon such as the memory of the internal armed conflict and its process of …
Ayacucho: Toward Another Future?
A look at Ayacucho — and even more so, an assessment of its situation — almost always centers on comparing past and present in terms of violence and the possibility …
The Urgency of Working on Historical Memory in Schools
How is it possible that the tragedy experienced by Peruvians has not been processed? Why have we not learned that intolerance, hatred, discrimination, and racism lead to destruction and death? …
Memory Magazine No. 8
Memoria No. 8 contains three applied research pieces on topics related to democracy, human rights, and culture, produced by CISEPA at PUCP. Ethnicity, the disappeared, and migration make up the …
Weaving Life. Stories of Six Women from Ayacucho. Methodological Guide
Methodological Guide to the book "Tejiendo vida" (Weaving Life): History of Six Ayacuchan Women. Project "Recognition and Exercise of Rights of Ayacuchan Women Affected by the Internal Armed Conflict," carried …
Civic Education in Peruvian Schools. Conceptual Advances and Limitations in Classroom Practice
"This publication is composed, first, of a conceptual note on citizenship education and its importance for the development of democracy, prepared by Susana Frisancho. Second, it presents the text interpreting …
Ketín Vidal: "Shining Path Operates in Universities and Schools in Lima"
Former head of the Dircote asserts that Sendero Luminoso has infiltrated the education system — this concerns the third faction of the terrorist group. He proposes the creation of a …
Cabanillas Criticizes Social Sciences Textbook
According to Cabanillas, in 100 pages there is no forceful condemnation of terrorist actions, but it is affirmed that the Armed Forces repressed with violence, brutally causing the death of …
Memory Magazine No. 4
"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 …
Education and Cultural Diversity. Iskay Yachay and Paya Yatiwi in Andean Communities
This series of documents was prepared by Grimaldo Rengifo in his capacity as coordinator of the Children and Biodiversity Project, which PRATEC together with six Andean Cultural Affirmation Nuclei (NACA) …
Anco, Making Memory
At this moment, although pacification has been achieved, much remains to be done on the path toward justice, reparation, and reconciliation. "Anco, haciendo memoria" (Anco, Making Memory) is a proposal …
Peru: Investigating Twenty Years of Recent Violence
The cataclysm that befell Peru during the last two decades of the 20th century — perhaps the most severe in its history — is the subject of all the works …
Education in Vulnerable Peruvian Families
Drawing on various ethnographic fieldwork carried out interchangeably between 2001–2002 and 2007 in the south-central highlands of Peru, this work analyzes how indigenous and peasant families construct certain collective imaginaries …
Education, Citizenship and Violence in Peru: A Reading of the CVR Report
From the rubble of a collapsed educational system, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso emerged. Its main leaders were teachers or university-trained professionals. Universities, Higher Pedagogical Institutes, and secondary schools were its main …
We Are Remembering = Yuyachkanikum
Yuyachkanikum is an educational resource prepared using testimonies collected by the Defensorías Comunitarias of Huancavelica. These bodies carry out important work promoting and monitoring human rights in their communities and …
Teaching in Truth. A Vision of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from the Articulation Between Truth, Feelings and Human Rights
This text — written while the CVR was midway through its work — was presented as a doctoral thesis in International Human Rights Law. However, it is less concerned with …
Incense and Broom
The mission of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary in Huancapi began during the harshest years of terrorism in our Peru. As is well known, its cradle was the university …
The School in Times of War: A Look at Education from Crisis and Violence
The study is framed around three central questions. First, what place do the school and the educational system in general occupy in the strategies of the subversive groups and the …
On the Razor's Edge
This document has not yet been digitized in the BVVR. It can be consulted in person at the library of the Centro de Estudios y Promoción de Desarrollo, DESCO, in …
The Discourse of Shining Path. Educational Counter-Text
One wonders whether, beyond the successes, one of the greatest errors of those of us who have approached the study of Sendero Luminoso may have been to speak more about …
Social Variables of Crime and Terrorism in Peru
The purpose of this work is to present the most significant results of social studies conducted on the phenomenon of crime and terrorism in Peru. The studies correspond to an …
Peru: Shining Path and Dark Horizons
This document has not yet been digitized in the BVVR. It can be consulted in person at the library of the Centro de Estudios y Promoción de Desarrollo, DESCO, in …