Literature on survivor mobilization in transitional justice contexts has largely overlooked the relevance and dynamics of solidarity-based support by non-victimized groups. This article studies the relation between contentious processes of discursive ‘memory-making’ and public support for reparations in post-conflict Guatemala. Using a nationwide survey-embedded experiment with 300 respondents, we measure how contrasting representations of the temporality of harm and prospects for peace – drawn from elite versus survivor narratives – influence political solidarity with Indigenous survivors and support for their reparation demands. Findings show that while perceptions of survivors’ continued suffering and reparations’ peace-building potential are key predictors of solidarity and support, the contrasting narrative primes did not significantly influence these perceptions or resulting attitudes. The survey’s open-ended responses suggest that, in engaging with prevalent public discourses, respondents have developed relatively stable yet highly diverse interpretations of the necessity and ability of reparations to address social, psychological, and economic harms, and to promote beneficial outcomes for society at large. Mapping these responses onto the quantitative scores indicates that solidary support is more likely to emerge when non-victimized groups situate conflict-related harms within an ongoing history of structural violence and position reparations as building blocks for recognition, development and social integration – signalling the importance of discursive and expressive dynamics in public engagement with reparation processes.

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支持武装冲突后的赔偿：话语式的“记忆之战”如何影响对危地马拉原住民幸存者的政治团结

关于过渡时期司法背景下幸存者动员的文献在很大程度上忽视了非受害群体基于团结支持的相关性和动态。本文研究了冲突后危地马拉有争议的话语“记忆创造”过程与公众对赔偿的支持之间的关系。使用对 300 名受访者进行的全国性调查嵌入式实验，我们衡量了对伤害的时间性和和平前景的对比表现——来自精英与幸存者的叙述——如何影响对土著幸存者的政治团结和对他们赔偿要求的支持。研究结果表明，虽然对幸存者持续遭受苦难和赔偿建设和平潜力的看法是团结和支持的关键预测因素，但对比鲜明的叙事主因并没有显著影响这些看法或由此产生的态度。该调查的开放式回答表明，在参与普遍的公共话语时，受访者对赔偿解决社会、心理和经济伤害以及促进对整个社会的有益结果的必要性和能力形成了相对稳定但高度多样化的解释。将这些回答映射到定量分数表明，当非受害群体将与冲突相关的伤害置于持续的结构性暴力历史中，并将赔偿定位为承认、发展和社会融合的基石时，更有可能出现团结的支持——这表明在公众参与赔偿过程中话语和表达动态的重要性。