Comparative peace processes in Latin America
This book is about ending guerrilla conflicts in Latin America through political means. It discusses peace processes aimed at ending military conflicts in the context of agreements that touch on some of the principal political, economic, social, and ethnic imbalances that led to conflict in the first place.
Print Book, English, ©1999
Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford University Press, Washington, D.C., Stanford, Calif., ©1999
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 493 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804735889, 9780804735896, 0804735883, 0804735891
40632449
Preface; Introduction; Part I. Case Studies and Issues: 2. From low-intensity war to low-intensity peace: the Nicaraguan peace process; 3. Political transition and institutionalisation in El Salvador; 4. Peace and democratisation in Guatemala: two parallel processes; 5. The peace process in Chiapas: between hope and frustration; 6. Negotiating peace amid multiple forms of violence: the protracted search for a settlement to the armed conflicts in Colombia; 7. Peace in Peru: an unfinished task; 8. The decimation of Peru's Sendero Luminoso; 9. Role of the United Nations in El Salvador and Guatemala: a preliminary comparison; 10. Between memory and forgetting: Guerillas, the indigenous movement, and legal reform in the time of the EZLN; 11. Indigenous identity and rights in the Guatemala peace process; Part II. Consolidating Peace and Reform: 12. Truth, justice and reconciliation: lessons for the international community; 13. In pursuit of justice and reconciliation: contributions of truth telling; 14. Renegotiating internal security: the lessons of Central America; 15. Postconflict political economy of Central America; 16. Conclusion: lessons learned in comparative perspective; Contributions; Index.