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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The Peasant Patrols: Clarifying the Term
The rondas campesinas play a fundamental role in the exercise of Communal Justice, as recognized by Article 149 of the Political Constitution itself. However, in everyday language, other organizations are …
SHINING PATH VIOLENCE AMONG THE ASHANINKA OF THE CENTRAL JUNGLE
Interim findings of a political anthropology study on the internal war in Peru (1980–2000). Introduction. I. Some general hypotheses about violence in Peru. II. The Peruvian civil war in the …
State of the Art. The Conflict in Peru
The civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s was a fertile ground for the emergence of new actors with various names, but reflecting a similar reality. The so-called …
Memory of a War. Peru 1980-2000
The central theme of this book is the intense class struggle that took place in Peru during the period 1980–2000, and the positions taken by social classes, political parties, the …
Patrolling by Our Law
The Programa de Acceso a la Justicia Rural - PROJUR has found it appropriate to reissue this book, which documents the process of managing this new Rondas Law and the …
The Peasant Self-Defense Patrol in Peru: Citizens Against the State
The author points out the fact that the State insists on its prerogative: the monopoly on the use of force (to avoid saying violence); but it forgets the reason and …
The Peasant Self-Defense Patrol in a Peasant Community in Northern Peru: La Toma in Cajamarca
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 …
Legal and Political Pluralism in Peru: The Case of the Rondas Campesinas of Cajamarca
This article analyzes, from an anthropological perspective, some challenges of political and legal pluralism in the case of the Rondas Campesinas of Cajamarca (Peru). Social organizations born with the purpose …
Legal and Political Pluralism in Peru: The Case of the Rondas Campesinas of Cajamarca
The article analyzes, from an anthropological perspective, some challenges of political and legal pluralism in the case of the Rondas Campesinas of Cajamarca (Peru). Social organizations born with the purpose …
Legal and Political Pluralism in Peru: The Case of the Peasant Self-Defense Patrols of Cajamarca
The article analyzes, from an anthropological perspective, some challenges of political and legal pluralism in the case of the Rondas Campesinas of Cajamarca (Peru). Social organizations born with the aim …
The Peasant Patrols of Chota and San Marcos: Analysis of Patrol Justice Practices
The study presented here describes the role played by communal actors — such as the rondas campesinas — in local contexts and relationships, as in Chota and San Marcos, where …
Past, Present, and Future of Anti-Subversive Peasant Patrols in Junín, Peru (1990-2001)
In just over three decades, the social and political order in the Peruvian Andean region was modified time and again, seeking to build, on the ruins of the previous order, …
Compendium of Legislation for Victims of Terrorism
The compendium presents the legislation in force as of 2002 directed at three sectors affected by terrorism: a) civilian and political authorities and public officials and servants; b) members of …
Peasant Patrols and Insurgent Organizations in Peru
Narrating how the Rondas Campesinas in Peru originated, spread, and grew stronger, as well as their valuable contribution to the defeat of Sendero Luminoso, are the objectives of this work. …
THE RONDAS CAMPESINAS IN PERU. A BRIEF HISTORY
The author explains the origin and subsequent spread of the Comités de Autodefensa Civil in Peru, more generically known as rondas campesinas. Chapter I: The origins. Chapter II: The rondas …
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 …
The Internal Pacification Process
The purpose of this study is to review what terrorism meant, how the threat it posed to society and the State was overcome, evaluate the possible re-emergence of flare-ups, and …
Decline and Survival of the Peasant Self-Defense Patrols of Northern Peru
The peasant patrols of northern Peru formed an increasingly solid movement over fifteen years. Emerging from the people to combat the problem of cattle rustling, the first patrol was organized …
Peasants in the War. Or How People Begin to Toughen Up
Studies on the decade of violence have paid little attention to the meaning and structure of the civil defense committees, better known as "montucos." In most cases, the view of …
The peasant patrols and the defeat of Shining Path.
The book constitutes, in its own way, a tribute to the Quechua peasants of Ayacucho. Men and women who were at first entirely unarmed, destined to play the role of …
The Armed Forces and April 5
This text is part of a research project on the development of civil-military relations since the restoration of democracy in 1980. The original proposal was based on the observation that …
Peasant Patrols. Power, Violence and Self-Defense in Central Cajamarca
The report analyzes the forms of peasant self-defense organized to confront cattle rustling in a recurrently violent society, settled in the central micro-region of the department of Cajamarca, in the …
Army Continues Distributing Weapons to Peasants
The Peruvian army continues to distribute weapons to peasant paramilitary organizations, despite official statements claiming that guerrillas no longer pose a threat. According to sources linked to the joint command …
The Ronderos Speak: The Search for Peace in the Andes
Working Paper No. 45. Series: IEP Workshops No. 2. Presentation. I. THE STRONGEST ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL PEASANTRY: THE RONDAS CAMPESINAS OF THE NORTH. II. "NO LONGER LIKE A MEEK …
Report of the Special Rapporteur, Mr. B. W. Ndiaye, on His Mission to Peru from May 24 to June 2, 1993
The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has expressed on numerous occasions, in his reports to the Commission on Human Rights, his concern over the persistent and serious …
Political Violence: Forms of Community Response in Ayacucho
The subject of this research is political violence, the types of community responses to it, and its effects at the productive and social reorganization level during the period 1989–1990 at …
Extrajudicial Executions in Ayacucho; Peruvian Military and Sendero Blamed in Separate Cases
The document describes two separate mass killings, one committed by guerrillas and another by the military. The report indicates that the military patrol that committed the killings was under the …
In the Eye of the Storm: An Ayacucho Trip Report, Part I
Ambassador Quainton describes in detail the situation of political violence and insurgency in Ayacucho, detailing the historical roots of the region and the current political and military situation. He notes …
Extrajudicial Executions in Ayacucho: Peruvian Military and Sendero Are Blamed
The document discusses two separate mass killings, one committed by the guerrillas and one by the military. The report indicates that the military patrol that committed the killings was under …
Montoneras, Bandits and Peasant Patrols
"Montoneras, bandoleros y rondas campesinas" is a systematic study of high analytical elaboration that, while accounting for a political-social phenomenon whose actors operate fundamentally within the jurisdiction of the department …
In the Eye of the Storm: Report of a Trip to Ayacucho, Part I
Ambassador Quainton describes the situation of political violence and insurgency in Ayacucho, detailing the region's historical roots and the current political and military situation. He notes that Ayacucho is of …
The Role of Peasant Social Organizations in the Counter-Subversive Strategy: The Expreso Proposal
In all areas and aspects of national life, various social and political actors, legitimately concerned about the situation of violence that Peru is experiencing, have developed and continue to develop …