Project: "The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2001-2003, and its Vision of Future"

In August 2003, after 2 years of investigative work, the officially-appointed Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) submitted its Final Report on the Peruvian armed conflict from 1980 to 2000. The report provided of a detailed account of the period of political violence and, in the context of Peru’s political transition, it formulated the urgent need of a “decisive turn in the history of the nation”. This research project shall provide a historical account of the CVR. On the basis of the CVR’s working documents in its archive in Lima, the project will reconstruct the history of the CVR and the development of the vision of future contained in the Final Report. Additionally, to approach a fuller image of the temporalities of future in Peru during the period of political transition that reflects the social and cultural heterogeneity of its population, the dissertation project will include the historical study of aspirations and anticipations by further actors with alternative temporalities.