Gender and Reparations: Understanding Women's Struggles for Justice Historical Memory and Redress

A Study of Gender and Reparation in postwar Guatemala, led by Professor Alison Crosby (York University, Canada) and Professor M. Brinton Lykes

The Gender and Reparations: Understanding Women's Struggles for Justice Historical Memory and Redress project is a project conducted jointly with York University in Toronto.  It is led by Prof. Alison Crosby of York U. and BC CHRIJ Co-Director Prof. M. Brinton Lykes.

This project examines the nature and forms of reparation for women survivors of sexual violence during the 36-year long armed conflict in Guatemala, within a context of ongoing structural impunity, militarism and gender-based violence.

More information at the York U. project website

Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm

The book has won the 2021 Lemkin Book Award and also Honorable Mention for 2020 Canadian Association for Latin American & Caribbean Studies' Book Prize.

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