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About the Project
Archivos de la violencia y sobrevivencia
Project Grant
Regional Grant
During the Internal Armed Conflict, spanning from 1980 to 2000, human rights organizations / NGO’s developed in Peru to fight for the detained and disappeared. This Regional Grant will digitize records held by these NGO’s that document their work throughout the past forty years, making them public and help bring forth discussions on justice and memory.
This project highlights the responses from the Indigenous community to human rights violations, specifically from the Quechua-speaking women from the highlands of Ayacucho who founded the National Organization of Families of the Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared in Peru (ANFASEP, est. 1983), as loved ones of the victims. The women of ANFASEP will participate in all stages of the project, including regional training sessions and workshops to disseminate the project findings in the Ayacucho area.
Collectively, these regional archives tell the story of Peru's unique conflict and search for justice.
Asociación Nacional de Familiares de Secuestrados, Detenidos y Desaparecidos del Perú (ANFASEP)
Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)
Escuela Peruana de Antropología Forense (EPAF)
Project Leads
- Charles Walker, UC Davis History Department
- Maria Jaime, the Casa de Literatura library and archive
- Ruth Borja, the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), the History Department of the Social Science
Host Institution
University of California, Davis (U.S.)