Recipients Versus Participants: Politics of Aid and Victim Representation in Transitional Justice Practices in Peru

M. de Waardt; E. Willems

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Recipients Versus Participants: Politics of Aid and Victim Representation in Transitional Justice Practices in Peru

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© 2022 by Johns Hopkins University Press.This article examines how features of international development cooperation are reproduced within international networks of stakeholders in transitional justice (TJ) processes aimed at seeking redress for victims of mass atrocities. To answer this question, the authors analyze interactions between survivors of the Peruvian internal armed conflict and (inter)national development and human rights NGOs involved in the TJ process. The article identifies four features of international development cooperation and scrutinizes the respec-tive ways in which they challenge the reciprocal linkages between NGOs and victim-groups in post-conflict settings: asymmetrical relationships, ephemeral agenda-setting processes, paternalism, and socio-geographical concentration of development interventions. We show how these four features influence representations of victimhood as well as the extent to which survivors can formulate their demands and priorities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	339-363
Journal	Human Rights Quarterly
Volume	44
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2022.0012
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2022
Externally published	Yes

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The authors would like to express their gratitude to the many Peruvians in the cities of Lima, Huancayo, and Ayacucho, and in rural communities of the Ayacucho and VRAEM region who shared their time, experiences, and perspectives with us, and to the members of Reflexıón (Association Reflection of Liberated Innocents), ANFASEP (the National Association of Families of the Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared of Peru) and ARDCP (the Regional Association of Displaced of Central Peru). Special thanks to Gabriela Zamora Castellares, Alicia Noa, Karina Barrientos, Vicky Rojas, and Miguel Amaya for their research support during fieldwork. We would also like to thank Michiel Baud, Arij Ouweneel, Ton Salman, Freek Colombijn, and Berber Bevernage for their valuable comments on earlier papers of which parts have been used for this article. The research for this article was made possible with the financial support of the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) and the VU University Amsterdam, the Research Foundation Flanders, and the Special Research Fund of Ghent University.

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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