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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Great march for peace. Second part
Great march for peace. First part
Fifth Anniversary of the CVR - Interview with Beatriz Alva Hart (Part 1)
Fifth Anniversary of the CVR - Interview with Beatriz Alva Hart (Part 2)
Peasant painting: Memory and images of our land
The anger in the eye. Interview
Messages from the CVR Final Report: National reconciliation
Documents 33
The Ambiguities of the CVR's Final Report in Explaining the Causes and Dynamics of the Internal Armed Conflict
In this text the author argues that the IF of the CVR failed to articulate a coherent discourse in explaining the causes and dynamics of the internal armed conflict, and …
The Disappeared: A False Dispute Between Humanitarian and Judicial Objectives
In our country there is a discrepancy between our perception of the needs of the relatives of disappeared persons and the actions we have proposed on their behalf. It is …
Memory Has Not Been Forgotten
IDL has worked in regional processes to try to reconstruct the past. The work in Huancavelica was intensive. Little was known about what happened in that department, unlike Ayacucho, where …
Flores-Aráoz States That the CVR Report Has Not Achieved Reconciliation
Six years after the presentation of the Truth Commission (CVR) report, reconciliation among Peruvians has not been achieved due to the "existing bias" of that document against the Armed Forces …
Heated Debate over the Museum of Memory
Discussion in the Congressional Commission on National Defense and Internal Order regarding Alan García's government's rejection of Germany's donation for a museum of memory. Participants included: Edgar Nuñez, Lourdes Alcorta, …
Peru Does Not Need Museums
Vargas Llosa criticizes the comments of Defense Minister Florez Aráoz, in which he justifies Alan García's government's rejection of Germany's offer to build a Museum of Memory.
Time of Memory. Reflections on Human Rights and Transitional Justice
"What ethical demands does thinking after what we have experienced in Ayacucho, Apurímac, and Huallaga impose on us? What political tasks does the reconstruction of democracy set for us after …
Memory and the Museum of Memory (2)
The subject has been widely commented on in the media and in blogs. One angle I found important is how to address the issue of memory and the promotion of …
Sowing Hope: Local Reparation Experiences in Ayacucho, Huánuco, San Martín and Lima "2004-2007"
Following the presentation of the Final Report of the Truth Commission, the Asociación Paz y Esperanza decided to contribute to the reconciliation process through its ongoing work. As soon as …
Reconciliation in Peru. Conditions and Challenges
The instituto Bartolomé de las Casas organized in August 2006 the international seminar: Conditions for Achieving Reconciliation in Peru. This was a gathering of analysts from various disciplines who, from …
Civil Society and the Reconciliation Process: Various Perspectives
The work is divided into two large sections. The first is titled: Civil Society, Different Agendas and Accompaniments, in which the problem of the causes of violence is discussed, along …
Post-War Realities in Peru: Omissions, Denials and Their Consequences
In this working document, the Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (IDEHPUCP) proposes a discussion on the relevance of the concept of postwar …
Reconciliation and Option for the Poor
The theme of reconciliation evokes many echoes in the Christian faith and therefore involves us today in this country. What contribution can we make as Christians to this great task …
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 …
Historical and Cultural Memory for Peace. Learning from the Past to Build the Future (Seminar)
"Historical Memory and a Culture of Peace: Learning from the Past to Build the Future" was the name of an international conference held in October 2005 in the cities of …
Democratic Transformations and Memories of Violence in Peru
The Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (IDEHPUCP) makes available to the interested public this working document, which analyzes the scenarios that have …
Toward Reparation and Reconciliation: Shared Responsibilities - Forum
This document is a record of the work carried out during the forum: "Hacia la reparacion y la reconciliacion: responsabilidades compartidas." It contains the presentations delivered and the analysis and …
Truth, Justice and Reparation. Challenges for Democracy and Social Coexistence
In recent decades our region has experienced many violent conflicts and also their endings. This book allows us to better understand the situation in several countries of the Latin American …
The rebellion of memory
The texts of Salomón Lerner Febres, carefully selected by the Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones, are pieces of philosophical depth but were also a call to attention for Peruvians regardless …
The Difficulties of Memory, Power and Reconciliation in the Andes: The Ayacucho Example
This work revolves around the problem of violence, memory, and what is called the reconciliation process in Peru from the Ayacucho perspective. The author's concern centers on what happened in …
Among Neighbors. The Internal Armed Conflict and the Politics of Reconciliation in Peru
"As we argue in this text, the rural Quechua-speaking population manages theories both of the etiology of their ailments and of the methods for treating what ails them. Their therapeutic …
Battles for Memory: Antagonisms of the Peruvian Promise.
Almost two centuries after independence, "the Peruvian promise" — the possibility of a dignified life for all — remains a distant horizon. The multiple social ruptures have conspired against the …
Omission of Truth: What About Reconciliation? Peru 1980-2000
The book presents the position of the Peruvian Armed Forces and the police regarding the events that occurred during the Peruvian internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000. This is …
Unearthing the Truth
The country that emerges from a calm reading of the CVR report is striking. The country as a whole, in fact — not just the period the commission was tasked …
Truth, Memory, Justice and Reconciliation
Twenty years of political violence, internal war, and an authoritarian regime in which human rights were set aside deserve to be evaluated and brought to light in order to build …
How We Learned to Kill Our Neighbor: Memory, Violence and Reconciliation
We have always believed that to achieve true national reconciliation it was necessary to know the truth of what had occurred during the years of the war. In the following …
Peru, the Price for Peace
This work takes it as understood that pacification, beyond victory over armed insurgency and beyond the terrorist characterization, allows us to dwell on the multiple facets that feed a substantive …