Violencia, trauma y duelo: proyecto de vida e identidad personal en familiares del caso Cantuta

Abstract

The current investigation started by being interested in exploring the scenario after the political violence period Peru endured between the 1980’s and 2000’s. For such events, it was proposed as an objective to know the effects of experiencing loss, under enforced disappearance, in the identity and life projects of the relatives of the Cantuta case. With that as an objective, and within the qualitative paradigm margin, the cases of two relatives of the missing students were explored through detailed interviews, which enabled a thematic analysis. The results revealed broken and altered life projects, as well as the assumption of new roles and new ways to perceive themselves, which demonstrates an impact at a multidimensional level in their personal stories.