From victims to heroes: peasant counter-rebellion and civil war in Ayacucho, Peru, 1980-2000
In: Thela Latin America series
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In: Thela Latin America series
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 20, Heft 4, S. 470-497
ISSN: 1470-9856
Despite the fact that the Shining Path guerrilla movement in Peru enjoyed initial peasant support, the emergence and spread of rondas campesinas or self‐defence committees in the Andean highlands of Ayacucho was principally a response against coercion and violence exerted by Shining Path against the very same peasantry. This article seeks to demonstrate that the ronda phenomenon must be understood as part of the complex changes brought about by the proliferation of violence in the Peruvian Andes. The spread of rondas campesinas cannot be reduced to a mere counterinsurgent strategy imposed by the security forces on the rural communities; communal initiative and peasant 'agency' were, at certain stages, at least as important. Only with the rise to power of Fujimori were the self‐defence committees formally incorporated in the state's anti‐guerrilla strategy. Subsequently, with the reduction in the level of violence, self‐defence committees have been seeking new roles in relation to the challenges of re‐civilianisation and reconstruction.
In: Studies in conflict and terrorism, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1521-0731
In: Latin American politics and society, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 127-148
ISSN: 1531-426X
Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Warlords in international relations / Paul B. Rich - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. - 192 S
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