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Who we are

AROVITE. Digital Archive of Terrorist Violence in the Basque Country

AROVITE is a source of reference for research on terrorism in the Basque Country committed by the different ramifications of ETA, the GAL, the extreme right or the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commandos.

AROVITE has two functions. On one hand, it manages information now scattered across the Internet. In this area, the section of external links is very useful, as it gives access to the most important online resources: archives, libraries, research groups, websites of associations of victims of terrorism, international references, etc. On the other hand, AROVITE is a content repository. Here, our bibliographic search engine and our reading suggestions stand out. We have also published several graphs, a timeline of terrorism in the Basque Country, a list of films that deal with this particular issue, etc.

AROVITE is an initiative of the Institute of Social History Valentín de Foronda, of the University of the Basque Country, an institution with a remarkable research trajectory in the field of Modern History of the Basque Country. AROVITE is a result of one of the fields of research of the Institute: politics of memory and victims of political violence in the Basque Country, 1936-2011.

“El terrorismo puede ser definido, en perspectiva sociológica, como una forma de acción colectiva caracterizada por el recurso sistemático y tendencialmente exclusivo a la violencia armada, ya sea potencial o efectiva, con la intención de afectar la distribución del poder mediante atentados cuyo impacto psicológico y simbólico supera al derivado de los daños personales y materiales que provocan. Se trata de un fenómeno surgido en su configuración actual a finales de los años sesenta, preferentemente en el contexto de las sociedades industrializadas y protagonizado por organizaciones clandestinas de dimensiones reducidas e ideológicamente inspiradas”.

Fernando Reinares
1989