“Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Gender and Human Rights in Peru: 20 years afterwards” digital am 01. Juli 2022

On behalf of the Chair of Peace Studies and the seminar "Theory and practice of engendering peace and conflict", we cordially invite you to the guest lecture held by Prof. Dr. Narda Henriquez on the topic of:

 

Next year it will be the 20th anniversary of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission´s Report, presented to authorities in 2003 to disclose the mass violence committed over a twenty years internal armed conflict in the country.  The nine-volume report is only a small part of a huge and laborious work that includes many public audiences, testimonies and case studies which are at the archive of the Lugar de la Memoria (Place of memory). The Truth and Reconciliation Commission carried out public audiences with quechuaspeaking people from inner lands and from other native communities where political violence was devastating.  This presentation will focus on the political context and women´s experience along the conflict and afterwards from a gender perspective, as well as the way in which the Commission and the Report could include women´s human rights violations explicitly in its agenda and a brief chapter on gender issues along the armed conflict in the Report.

Prof. Dr. Narda Henriquez is a Peruvian sociologist, who holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.  She has been one of the founders of the first women´s studies program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and has a long trajectory in the areas of social change and gender studies. She has produced several books, among them, the renowned book « Cuestiones de Género y Poder en el Conflicto Armado en el Perú » (2004). Prof. Henriquez was a gender consultant to Peru´s Commission on Truth and Reconciliation and is a former president of the Peruvian Association of Sociologists. She has also been Director of the Postgraduate Studies Programs in Sociology (at Masters and Ph.D. levels) and has also conducted research on institutional violence and forced sterilizations in rural areas in Peru (2016-2017).

Prof. Henriquez also published on topics regarding social imaginaries and inequalities, human rights and women´s movements. Prof. Henriquez is a founder of the feminist organization “Flora Tristán” and a member of the Colectivo SOFÏA, which promotes women´s contribution to social sciences. Prof. Henriquez has been recognized for her outstanding contribution to women’s rights and Peruvian culture by the Ministry of Culture (2013) and as Emeritus Professor by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2020).

Moderation: Dr. Rosario Figari Layus

Event link (Cisco Webex):

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