Open Wounds, Elusive Rights: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Until the early 2000s, predicting that Peru would soon have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) would have sounded eccentric. How, then, did a window of opportunity open for its creation just eighteen months later? How has its work influenced the dispute over a hegemonic account of the internal armed conflict that the country lived through in the 1980s and 1990s? How does the Final Report, presented on August 28, 2003, modify the intellectual and political agenda? This text offers some preliminary reflections on these questions.