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6th Anniversary of the CVR Final Report
Reflections - 6th Anniversary of the CVR Final Report
CVR+5 commemoration in Lima
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Interview with CVR commissioner Sofía Macher. On the CVR budget.
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THE JUDICIALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PERU
The Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) was tasked with investigating the crimes and human rights violations perpetrated from 1980 through the end of the conflict as a result …
Human Rights Organizations Commemorated the 15th Anniversary of the Delivery of the CVR Report
Human Rights organizations and relatives of victims of the internal conflict commemorated today, August 28, the 15th Anniversary of the delivery of the CVR report, paying a heartfelt tribute to …
Annual Report 2012-2013. Ten Years of the CVR Final Report
"What would be the best way to characterize 2013 for human rights in Peru? Perhaps it could be said that the inaction of institutions tasked with safeguarding rights intersects with …
Eduardo González: "From Abroad, the CVR Is Seen as an Institution with Great Technical Competence"
Interview with Eduardo González Cueva, who participated as Director of Public Hearings and Victim Protection and as a drafter of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y …
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 …
Legitimacy Is Given by the Victims
Salomón Lerner, who presided over Peru's truth commission, reflects on the eventual creation of a truth commission in Colombia. On August 28, the tenth anniversary of the presentation of the …
Media and Imaginaries: Gaps in Addressing Violence in Peru
This text addresses several issues that were little explored — or debates set aside — by the capital's media in the decade following the presentation of the Final Report of …
Ten Years After the Presentation of the CVR's Final Report: Have We Made Progress?
Ten years after the CVR presented its final report, it is a good moment to review what happened with its 85 recommendations (53 on institutional reforms and 32 related to …
Historians and the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Peru, 2003–2013)
The publication of the Final Report (IF) of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) in 2003 provoked a rupture across the various scientific and artistic disciplines in the …
David Sulmont: "Many of the Things Said About the Figures Have a Rather Weak Foundation"
David Sulmont, current director of the Instituto de Opinión Pública of the PUCP, was head of the Information Systems area of the CVR. From that role he oversaw everything related …
An Assessment Across Several Timeframes
The CVR's Final Report captures not only the results of two years of investigations, interviews with more than 17,000 people, public hearings, and debate; it also synthesized a long process …
Let Truth Show Its Power
The Peruvian CVR is a direct heir of the Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP) in Argentina and of the Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) of Guatemala. Its …
We Also Have a Dream
This past August 10th marked 10 years since the delivery of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR). Like so many other anniversaries, the event …
The Future Caught Up with Us
In this article the author reflects on the concept and meaning of reconciliation in postwar Peru, within the broader framework of the collective memory construction process, to draw attention to …
Poorer, More Indigenous, More Victimized
The CVR's final report draws a profile of the victim that highlights their ethnic characteristics. Even racist insults are described as a common, additional element in cases of torture, arbitrary …
Ayacucho: Toward Another Future?
A look at Ayacucho — and even more so, an assessment of its situation — almost always centers on comparing past and present in terms of violence and the possibility …
The Controversy Over the Figures: The CVR's Overestimates
The main finding of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), ten years ago, was quantitative in nature: the 69,000 fatal victims and the assertion that the main perpetrator …
Four Testimonies Ten Years After the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
A decade after the publication of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación on the internal armed conflict from 1980 to 2000, Amnesty International acknowledges and …
The Internal War and the School Curriculum
The Ministry of Education, Minedu, convened a meeting of experts to discuss how to translate the years of terrorism into content that could be used in the school curriculum. It …
The Disappeared in Peru Matter to Us
The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported approximately 69,000 people disappeared in the context of the political violence that took place in the period 1980–2000 in our …
There Are CVR Report Tasks That Have Not Been Fulfilled
A decade after the delivery of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), many tasks remain to be fulfilled. This is demonstrated by the assessment carried out …
The Peruvian Justice System, Ten Years After the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The period of political violence and the fight against terrorism left very deep wounds in Peruvian society. The violence affected everyone, including the actors of the justice system, who were …
The Truth Shows Itself Somehow and Sets Things in Their Place
"There has been a great deal of prejudice in the CVR's work, and it continues to exist. There are people who criticize without reading," says Lerner Febres about the final …
Justice and Human Rights
Alongside truth, justice constitutes another fundamental concept in the drafting and discussion of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación (CVR) that has been questioned …
The Urgency of Working on Historical Memory in Schools
How is it possible that the tragedy experienced by Peruvians has not been processed? Why have we not learned that intolerance, hatred, discrimination, and racism lead to destruction and death? …
The CVR's Imprecise Figure: 69,280 Dead
The methodology applied by Patrick Ball, Jana Asher, David Sulmont, and Daniel Manrique to calculate the number of deaths during the terrible years of Senderismo has been subject to various …
Lerner Febres Strikes Back
The death of comrade "William" triggered a new offensive against the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, which has just marked its ninth anniversary. In the …
Wooden Dead and Ink Like Blood: The Construction of the Peruvian Nation-State from the Reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a Monument of Memory
The Peruvian armed conflict (1980-2000) was clarified through the Truth, and later the Reconciliation, Commission (CVR), established in 2001 by the transitional government headed by Valentín Paniagua. The CVR published …
The Truth About the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru
This article is an example of the attacks by the far-right in Peru against the CVR, and it deserves to be read to appreciate the degree of shamelessness with which …
Analysis of the Chapter 'Explaining the Internal Armed Conflict' in the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Nine years after the conclusion of the work of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), the debate over its raison d'être persists, but above all over its work. …
The Truth About the 'Truth Commission' Emerges
Alleged revelations about the former Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), due to inaccurate data and other deceptive procedures, further undermine the credibility of that body and of the …
CVR Final Report. General Index
This general index contains links to independently read the texts of each of the 9 Volumes and their annexes
And After the Truth? The Public Space and the Struggles for Memory in the Post-CVR Period, Peru
Seven years have passed since the president of the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación (CVR), Salomón Lerner Febres, presented the final report to Peruvian society and the state. …
The Challenges of Reconciliation Six Years after the CVR's Final Report
Summary of the papers presented at the V Encuentro de Derechos Humanos held from September 7 to 11, 2009, organized by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Económicas, Políticas y Antropológicas, …
6-Year CVR Report. Progress from Below... Setbacks from Above
"Progress from below... setbacks from above" is the name of this pamphlet, which from its title acknowledges all those people, while also denouncing — through its cover — that those …
Whose Memories Are These? The Archive of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The "Centro de Información para la Memoria Colectiva y los Derechos Humanos" began operating in April 2004 and made the documentation of the Comisión de la Verdad available to the …
Reparations in the Peruvian Transition: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
After two years of intense work, the CVR offered the country a new account of what happened in Peru during the last two decades of the twentieth century, and brought …
The Closer, the Further Away
Victims in the photographs of violence from the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación del Perú. This work is part of the project for my Master's thesis in Communication and …
The Struggle for Memory in the Peruvian Post-Conflict Experience
In Peru, we lived through a twenty-year conflict with thousands of victims who suffered systematic violations of Human Rights (forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, torture, collective massacres). The Report of the …
Inputs for the Debate on the Purpose, Nature and Procedures of a National Registry of Victims of the Conflict in Peru
The authors present an initial reflective essay based on a process of documentary research and interviews, following a framework of key questions whose possible answers provide a set of variables …
Opaque Eyes
Opaque Eyes: the victim in the photographic account of Peru's Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación. Reflections on photography and its role in reconstructing the visual memory of the years …
Listening to Community Voices. A Study on the Implementation of Collective Reparations in Peru
This publication focuses on the Collective Reparations Program, which is currently the only program in the implementation phase, and which is directed at rural and indigenous community populations in 15 …
CVR: 5 YEARS SINCE ITS FINAL REPORT
If, three years after the submission of the Final Report, the national community was beginning to be warned of a stagnation in the implementation of the CVR's recommendations, by the …
5 Years after the Delivery of the CVR Report. Women: Still Invisible Victims of the Armed Conflict in Peru
"It is becoming increasingly difficult and slower to implement the CVR's recommendations, especially on the issues of prosecution and implementation of institutional reforms. Five years have passed since the Comisión …
Damage Control
Three years have passed since the presentation of the CVR report. As a review of the post-CVR period, we publish the opinions of the ombudsperson, Beatriz Merino; of Eduardo Vega, …
So That It Is Not Repeated
Unearthing the truth and reconstructing the memory of a violent period in our recent history (1980-2000), particularly for those who endured it in silence, would be the first step in …
Starting Point: Huancavelica
CVR recommendations and Huancavelica. A broad survey conducted in Huancavelica forms the starting point for a project that seeks to improve governance and governability. How? By working simultaneously in four …
CVR: Intermittent Lights
An assessment of the implementation of the recommendations of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) in the closing year involves analyzing the steps taken by two governments: the …
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru and a Gender Perspective: Main Achievements and Findings
The CVR's findings are striking, and the nine voluminous volumes of the report document the development of the violence process, the actors in the conflict, the crimes and human rights …