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Reshaping Reparative Justice from Below: Assessing Regional Participation of Victims in the Implementation of Reparations in Peru
Sat, May 25, 9:00 to 10:30am, TBAAbstract
Since 2007, Peru’s Programa Integral de Reparaciones (PIR, Comprehensive Reparations Program) has provided material, symbolic, individual, and collective reparations to victims of the civil conflict (1980-2000). Out of a national-level policy design process, important differences in the implementation of reparations – i.e. policy output – have emerged across regions. Which factors explain subnational variation in the execution of reparation programs? Previous studies examined international and domestic factors conditioning the creation of reparative justice laws and models at the national level. However, how this process unfolds on the ground from policy design to local implementation remains underexplored. This paper examines the interplay between victim organizations – as well as civil society groups intervening in this process – and regional government actors to depict how the local supply and demand of reparations shapes the implementation of the PIR. The study employs interview and archival data to build a comparative analysis of three highly-affected regions where national reparation efforts have been concentrated: Ayacucho, Junín, and Apurímac. Focusing on these regions with similar potential to execute the PIR provides a comparative advantage to examine how variation in capacities, resources, and strategies of local actors constrain, advance and lead to distinctive PIR policy outputs. Findings stress how given the lack of formal and institutionalized channels for participation both in the design and implementation of reparative justice, victim organizations have reclaimed the PIR policy space at the local level by building new avenues to articulate and negotiate their political demands with regional governments.