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Peru now has now more than 100 commemorative plaques or memorials related to the armed conflict (1980–2000). Behind this material reality, which is part of the policy of symbolic reparations to victims recommended by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, what is the context of these memorials and their reception by inhabitants? Who do they benefit financially and/or symbolically? Through an analysis of the sociology and historicity of memory processes, supported by a long ethnographic inquiry, this article aims to shed light on the different stages of and rationales for a local commemorative project that culminated in The Dove of Peace in the square of the village of Toraya (Apurímac). Examining the political and economic context in which it is inscribed, this study uncovers the competition between the Andean villages to access development projects proposed by NGOs. It also shows how the category of martyr tends to be adjusted to a representation of the victim that leads to a depoliticization of the reading of the civil war.