[Hamp-law] Peru Human Rights Lecture 3/27

[Flavio Risech]

Hampshire's Law and Latina/o Latina American 
Studies Programs present a lecture by Harvard 
anthropologist Kimberley Theidon on political 
violence and transitional justice in Peru, the 
site of the currently ongoing human rights trial 
of ex-president Alberto Fujimori, whose death 
squads wreaked terror and murder on the nation in 
the 1990s. Please plan to attend!


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>Hampshire College Latin@ Latin American Studies 
>and Legal Studies invite you to a lecture and 
>discussion:
>
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>Histories of Innocence:
>Post-War Stories in Peru
>
>
>by Dr. Kimberly Theidon
>(Anthropology, Harvard)
>
>
>Thurs. March 27, 2008
>  5:30
>Franklin Patterson Hall
>West Lecture Hall
>
>Food will be served.
>
>Dr. Kimberly Theidon is a medical anthropologist 
>focusing on Latin America. Her research 
>interests include critical theory applied to 
>medicine, psychology and anthropology; gender 
>studies; domestic, structural and political 
>violence; theories and forms of subjectivity; 
>human rights and international humanitarian law; 
>truth commissions, transitional justice and 
>reconciliation; the politics of post-war 
>reparations; comparative peace processes; 
>disarmament, demobilization and reintegration 
>programs for ex-combatants; anthropology of 
>development; and US counter-narcotics policy.  
>
>Dr. Theidon's first book, Entre Prójimos: El 
>conflicto armado interno y la política de la 
>reconciliación en el Perú, draws upon extensive 
>qualitative research on political violence, 
>trauma, religious movements and transitional 
>justice in post-war Peru. Her comparative 
>community-based study of the micropolitics of 
>reconciliation practiced at the communal and 
>intercommunal levels identifies various factors 
>that facilitate -- or hinder -- the 
>reconstruction of social relationships and 
>coexistence in the aftermath of fratricidal 
>violence. Entre Prójimos was awarded the 2006 
>Premio Iberoamericano Book Award Honorable 
>Mention for outstanding book in the social 
>sciences by the Latin American Studies 
>Association.
>
>She is currently conducting research in Colombia 
>and Ecuador on two interrelated themes: the 
>causes and consequences of populations in 
>displacement, refuge and return, with a 
>particular interest in the role of humanitarian 
>organizations in zones of armed conflict; and 
>the paramilitary demobilization process in 
>Colombia. Her research on the disarmament, 
>demobilization and reintegration (DDR) program 
>involves working not only with the ex-combatants 
>but the communities to which they return. In 
>this multi-sited research, Dr. Theidon has 
>emphasized the reintegration phase, convinced 
>that the unit of analysis and intervention must 
>move beyond the demobilized combatants 
>themselves to understand the complex dynamics of 
>social relationships and local peace-building 
>efforts. 
>
>Dr. Theidon is the executive director of Praxis: 
>An Institute for Social Justice www.praxisweb.org
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