Tejer alianzas frente y junto al Estado peruano del posconflicto: coalición prorreparaciones de las organizaciones de víctimas ayacuchanas

Abstract

Twenty years after the delivery of the final report of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2003), we should pay attention to the trajectories of political agency of the leaders of Ayacucho victims’ organizations, precisely the area where the greatest violence and human rights violations were unleashed. This is especially true when there is no consensus on what happened and when the fujimorismo actors are still present —and highly visible— in the political debate, while the victims and their associations lack the same media attention and political links. In this article, we analyze the changes in the political agency of the leaders of these Ayacucho organizations in post-conflict Peru and their impact on their relationship with the State. To this end, we adopted a qualitative methodology based on fieldwork in Ayacucho and interviews with key actors. We found that such associations have gone through a generational change, have gained certain organizational capacities (with internal variations according to trajectories and experiences in political advocacy), and have learned to weave a pro-reparations coalition with various actors —NGO, churches, international cooperation, some state agencies at multiple levels of government, and officials— to promote reparations and memory policies. In this advocacy, they have developed new ways of relating to the State without the intermediation of NGO: no longer seeing it as distant and reluctant to collaborate, but accepting it as an instance of joint work, lobbying, and even assuming bureaucratic positions to promote their agenda, without this implying an end to mistrust.

Keywords

• advocacy coalitions
• ayacucho
• peru
• political violence
• reparation policies
• victims’ organizations