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NA ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [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 ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]