Understanding women's struggles for justice, healing, and redress : a study of gender and reparation in postwar Guatemala; final technical report
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2014-01
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York University, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), Toronto, ON, CA
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Women survivors have a clear understanding that it is not possible to ‘repair an irreparable harm’ such as sexual violence. At the same time, they understand ‘gendered reparation’ to entail holding the state accountable for the harm that they have suffered, to guarantee non-repetition, bring perpetrators to justice, and to have access to land and housing. The project situated reparations strategies within broader struggles for justice, seeking to de-pathologize survivors of trauma, as well as deconstructing tendencies to reduce women to the status of victim-object. Researchers increasingly saw the central role of creativity in feminist and psychosocial accompaniment processes.
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Spanish version available in IDRC Digital Library: Entendiendo la lucha de las mujeres por justicia, sanación y desagravio : un estudio de género y reparaciones en la Guatemala post-guerra; informe técnico final
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Final Technical Report
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GENDER RESEARCH, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, REPARATION, ACCESS TO JUSTICE, PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH, TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE, GUATEMALA, FEMINISM, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, LATIN AMERICA, POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES, NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA