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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Each Era Marks Its Youth: The Armed Option and the Motivations of Shining Path Militants
The 1970s, with their political and ideological debates, social struggles, and the predominance of Marxism, influenced motivations to seek an ideal, egalitarian world. In the 1980s, the echo of the …
United We Make Ourselves Respected. Youth, Identities and Violence in Ayacucho
"Corsula Strocka's book is the best thing written to date on juvenile gangs in Peru. The author employs rigorous methodology, combines anthropology and social psychology, and carries out fascinating fieldwork …
Youth and Politics, Yesterday and Today. Letter to My Daughter
Through the epistolary device, as a communication between a Peruvian mother and her teenage daughter, a generational contrast is formulated between those who, like the author, were young in the …