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Through a feminist institutional ethnographic-oriented lens, this paper examines how gender and sexual violence came into the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (PTRC) (2001-2003) scope of visibility and how the temporally bound institution addressed these issues. This analysis utilizes the inclusion of gender and sexual violence as entry points for a deeper reflection on the institutional and discursive limits inherent within the work of the PTRC, which are rooted in set of liberal values that inform both international law and nation building. The paper garners a feminist critical perspective on the application of gender and sexual violence in an effort to both map problematic circuits to avoid and to help cut paths towards the transformation of state and society. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission's PTRC (2001-2003) Thematic Public Hearing on Political Violence and Crimes Against Women, analyzing both the representations of women and the disruptive moments that occurred in this hearing. Through a bricolage of narrative form including vignette, testimony, interpretive analysis, and selections from interviews, this paper explores the cacophony of voices and parallel realities present within the work of the PTRC. An examination of the public hearings, demonstrates how certain figures, such as virgin victim and righteous mother/community leader, are privileged through a human rights framework, overlaid upon the Peruvian national discourse. This examination also illustrates how others figures, such as imprisoned subversive women, are denied the possibility of recognition. This paper underscores the way in which dominant representations of women in the PTRC's national historical narrative impose limitations on a transition to democracy due to underlying exclusionary logics. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on field research conducted in Peru over six months in 2005 and 2006. It examines the role of transnational activist networks (TANs) in promoting transitional justice policies. Building on the work of Keck and Sikkink (1998), Pion-Berlin and Arceneaux (2001) and Areceneaux and Pion-Berlin (2005), I explore the strategies employed by a human rights TAN and its allies in Peru's domestic civil society to explain its sudden successes in 2001 as well as the longer-term limitations to its capacity to transform human rights accountability politics within the state. By comparing this case to others in the region that continue to grapple with these issues, I draw generalizable conclusions as to the centrality of TANs in this specific issue area as well as the obstacles to institutionalizing their activist agendas. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From Nuremburg to East Timor, through Peru, South Africa, Yugoslavia, and many others, the fight against impunity and the promotion of reconciliation and justice during periods of transition through truth-seeking, accountability, reparations, and/or insti ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]