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The state of emergency in democratic post-conflict Peru: A preliminary study on emergency laws

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2020): Anuario Derechos Humanos
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2020.57432

Abstract

This paper studies the states of emergency declared in Peru during the period that begins with the democratic transition Government established in November 2000 until 2018. First, it was found that the use of states of emergency increased progressively. The authors argue that the declaration of emergency to control internal order situations -in which the Government limits the exercise of rights and deploys the Police or the Armed Forces- is a normalized practice where emergency regimes are extended several times and, in some cases, they have even reached a state of quasi-perpetuity. Although most emergencies have been used to fight terrorism, this paper shows that in post-conflict Peru this figure has also been consistently used in social conflicts. Finally, the article reveals that the Peruvian State has been applying standards of the use of force of International Humanitarian Law during the states of emergency where the control of the internal order is given to the Armed Forces, even though there does not seem to be enough grounds to argue the existence of an armed conflict.

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State of emergency, suspension of rights, use of force, international human rights law, international humanitarian law

Author Biographies

Diego Quesada Nicoli, Universidad del Pacífico

Diego Quesada Nicoli es bachiller en Derecho por la Universidad del Pacífico, Perú, con estudios de especialidad en la Academia de Derecho Internacional de La Haya. Asistente de investigación en el Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico. 

Andrea Tafur Sialer, Universidad del Pacífico

Andrea Tafur Sialer es bachiller en Derecho por la Universidad del Pacífico, Perú, con estudios de especialidad en la Academia de Derecho Internacional de La Haya.

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Quesada Nicoli, D., & Tafur Sialer, A. (2020). The state of emergency in democratic post-conflict Peru: A preliminary study on emergency laws. Anuario De Derechos Humanos, 16(2), 205–234. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2020.57432
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