Interview with Kimberly Theidon and Edith Del Pino. Both researchers have been working for several years on the aftermath of the internal armed conflict in Ayacucho, Huancavelica, and the VRAE. …
Books & Articles
15 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
This thesis studies political violence in the peasant communities of Ayacucho, considering its impact on power relations among local power groups, peasant community members, and the state, as well as …
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 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 …
Between 1980 and 2000, Peru experienced an episode of political violence — an unprecedented internal armed conflict — that left a painful toll of murders, kidnappings, forced disappearances, torture, unjust …
The Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (Aprodeh) has prepared a preliminary report on all extrajudicial executions, massacres in peasant communities, arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture, and terrorist attacks — both by …
This work reconstructs the political violence in the communities of the district of Huamanquiquia, in the province of Víctor Fajardo, in the south-central region of Ayacucho. The presence of armed …
The Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales invites us to discuss the possibilities and limits of citizen participation as a gateway to the reinvention of democracy. After violence, …
- Extrajudicial executions in peasant communities. - Massacres in peasant communities. - Enforced disappearances. - Arbitrary detentions and political prisoners. - Torture. - Judicial proceedings for violations committed in earlier …
This report is a broad overview of the issue of displacement in Peru, based on the registry of NGOs from the Regional Roundtables that accompany displaced populations in the departments …
Various scholars and researchers of political violence point out that Civil Self-Defense organizations emerged to confront terrorism in the early 1980s, becoming one of the key factors in the fight …
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 …
Shortly before new mass graves were discovered in Pucayacu and the terrible massacre of Accomarca, and before the government decided on a change of anti-subversive strategy to combat Sendero Luminoso, …
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