Guatemala after the Peace Accords - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900039265 ISBN 13: 9781900039260

Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1999

Synopsis

One of the longest and seemingly most intractable civil wars in Latin America was brought to an end by the signing of the Peace Accords between the Guatemalan government and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) in December 1996. The essays in this volume evaluate progress made in the implementation of the peace agreements and signal some of the key challenges for future political and institutional reform. The volume opens with a chapter by Gustavo Porras, the government's main negotiator in the peace process. The first section then examines the issue of demilitarization. This is followed by aspects of indigenous rights in the peace process, including conceptual frameworks for rights advancement, the harmonization of state law and customary law, and the challenges of nation-state and citizenship construction. The next section examines issues of truth, justice, and reconciliation, and assesses prospects for the Truth Commission. The volume closes with an analysis of different aspects of political reform in Guatemala and includes comments made on the chapters and developed in the debate which took place at the conference on which it is based. The contributors are Marta Altolaguirre*, Marta Elena Casaús*, Demetrio Cojtí*, Edgar Gutiérrez*, Frank La Rue, Roger Plant, Gustavo Porras*, Alfonso Portillo*, Jennifer Schirmer, Rachel Sieder, David Stoll, Rosalina Tuyuc*, Anna Vinegrad, Richard Wilson (* chapters in Spanish).

About this title

About the Author:

Rachel Sieder, a lecturer in politics at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, is author of Customary Law and Democratic Transition in Guatemala and an associate researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO) in Guatemala City.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1900039265
• ISBN 13: 9781900039260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269
• Editor: Sieder Rachel