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Jessica Varat and the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF)
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
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Jessica is currently a graduate student at the Fletcher School with a focus on Conflict Resolution and International Negotiation. She is specifically interested in issues of peace-building, conflict transformation, and processes of reconciliation. Prior to coming to Fletcher, she worked at the Latin America Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. While at the Wilson Center, she helped to cultivate programming on the politics of Bolivia with a specific interest the areas of indigenous politics and political inclusion. During her time at the Center, she traveled to both Peru and Bolivia, and completed a semester-long introductory Quechua class. She also coordinated projects on citizen security and the geopolitics of energy.
She is extremely excited to have the opportunity to observe and advocate for theEquipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (EPAF). Jessica hopes to successfully help bring recognition to the valuable work being done by the EPAF through recovering mass graves and identifying victims of the widespread violence that occurred during the Fujimori government in the 1990’s. She also hopes to explore the greater processes of justice and reconciliation that are continuously taking place in Peru and how forensic anthropology can be a part of these processes.
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