Violence, Gender, and Ethnicity
The purpose of this work is to analyze to what extent the ethnic and gender affiliations of the populations affected by the violence influenced the way they experienced it and their capacity to respond to it. Secondly, it seeks to detect to what extent some of the solutions found entailed changes in gender relations that could lead toward greater equity between men and women and could be used as applicable models in the construction of a culture of peace. Violence, displacement, and reconstruction are processes clearly differentiated by gender. Women and men confront and respond to terror, trauma, and uprooting in different ways. In turn, they renegotiate their identities, rebuild their social networks, and formulate their hopes in their own distinctive ways. (Excerpt from the foreword).
Referenced in events
- Creation of ANFASEP (National Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Emergency Zones).
- Rape in Timpusca
- Rape at Cangallo Barracks
- Constitution of ANFASEP
- March for Peace in Ayacucho
- Period of intensification of assassinations against popular leaders
- March 'Against hunger and terror'.
- Increase in sexual violations by subversive groups