Doctoral Dissertation Research: Law, Transitional Justice and National Reconciliation in Post-war Peru

本项目研究普通刑法在战后秘鲁民族和解进程中的地位。报告对秘鲁真相与和解委员会2003年提出的47个典型的法律的案件进行了人种学研究，以起诉在秘鲁内战期间（1980-1995年）犯下国家支持的罪行而未受惩罚的犯罪者。 报告特别试图审查侵犯人权行为的受害者如何认识到新的痛苦形式，以及法律作为伸张正义和获得赔偿的手段的可能性。 这项研究包括对国家罪行的盖丘亚农民受害者、法律的个人、人权活动家和真相与和解委员会成员进行人种学分析。通过跟踪案件在秘鲁司法系统中的流动和所涉受害者的日常生活，这项研究将利用数据收集技术，如文本分析和档案工作、话语人种学、开放式访谈和参与式观察。这项工作将通过探索迄今尚未审查的领域，如暴力后法律的文化阐述，为过渡时期司法理论作出贡献。它还将通过对诉诸司法问题和暴力发生后法律的日常运作进行人种学探讨，促进关于预防暴力冲突的讨论。该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

This project studies the place of ordinary criminal law in the process of national reconciliation in post war-Peru. It comprises an ethnographic study of a selection of 47 paradigmatic legal cases filed by the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2003, to prosecute unpunished perpetrators of state-sponsored crimes during the internal war in Peru (1980-1995). It seeks, in particular, to examine how victims of human rights violations come to acknowledge new forms of suffering and the possibilities of law as a means for obtaining both justice and reparation. The study consists of an ethnographic analysis among Quechua peasant victims of state crimes, legal personal, human rights activists, and members of the TRC. By following cases as they move through the Peruvian judicial system and the everyday lives of the victims involved, this study will make use of technologies of data-collection such as textual analysis and archival work, ethnography of discourse, open-ended interviews, and participant observation. The work will contribute to theories of transitional justice through the exploration of areas hitherto unexamined, such as the cultural elaboration of law in the aftermath of violence. It will also contribute to discussions of preventing violent conflict by means of an ethnographic exploration of the problems of access to justice and the everyday working of law in the aftermath of violence. This award was co-funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.