Abstract

RAMIREZ ZAPATA, Iván. "The Difference is that They are Displaced and I Am a Victim": Internal Displacement and PostConflict Agenda in Peru. Pap.polit. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.1, pp.127-157. ISSN 0122-4409.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.papo22-1.ddvd.

Peru experienced an internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000. It is estimated that this stage produced around six-hundred thousand internal displacements; however, it is also a relegated issue in the set of priorities of the Peruvian post-conflict agenda. This article offers an explanation for this paradox. I identify six factors that relegate displacement in the post-conflict agenda: 1) lower probabilities for subjects to identify with displacement than with damages characterized by direct attacks on physical integrity; 2) a framework of meaning in which the idea of “victim” (of the armed conflict) does not include the figure of displaced person; 3) the nature of the concept of displacement, whose defining elements highlight the context in which it occurs, rather than relating an aggressor to a victim; 4) the need for an expert discourse on displacement as a condition to activate processes of identification with this category; 5) the history of interregional mobility prior to displacement, which diminishes specificity to this experience; and 6) the treatment made by the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on displacement. This argument makes two contributions: a) it starts a discussion about the way in which different affections are related, and b) shows limits of the post-conflict agenda that have been little explored in the Peruvian academy.

Keywords : Peru; internal displacement; post-conflict; Truth and Reconciliation Commission; victims.

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