Guatemala after the peace accords / edited by Rachel Sieder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sieder, Rachel.

University of London. Institute of Latin American Studies.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Peace--Guatemala--Congresses.

Peace.

Guatemala.

Civil rights--Guatemala--Congresses.

Civil rights.

Guatemala--Politics and government--1985---Congresses.

Politics and government.

Guatemala--Military policy--Congresses.

Military policy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 269 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Institute of Latin American Studies, [1998]

Language Note:

Chapters in English and Spanish.

Summary:

The essays in this volume evaluate progress made in the implementation of the peace agreements in Guatemala and signal some of the key challenges for future political and institutional reform.

Contents:

Contextos y perspectivas del proceso de paz / Gustavo Porras Castejon 3

Part II. Demilitarisation 19

1 Prospects for Compliance: The Guatemalan Military and the Peace Accords / Jennifer Schirmer 21

2 El problema de la desmilitarizacion en la Guatemala del post-conflicto armado / Edgar Gutierrez 33

3 Human Rights, Land Conflict and Memories of the Violence in the Ixil Country of Northern Quiche / David Stoll 42

Part III. Indigenous Rights 63

4 Gobernabilidad democratica y derechos indigenas en Guatemala / Demetrio Cojti Cuxil 65

5 Ethnicity and the Guatemalan Peace Process: Conceptual and Practical Challenges / Roger Plant 80

6 Customary Law and Local Power in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder 97

7 Reflexiones en torno a la legitimidad del Estado, la nacion y la identidad en el marco de los Acuerdos de Paz en Guatemala / Marta Elena Casaus Arzu 116

Part IV. Truth, Memory and Justice 151

8 Alcances y limitacioncs de la Comision para el Esclarecimiento Historico de las Violaciones a los Derechos Humanos y los Hechos de Violencia que han Causado Sufriemento a la Poblacion Guatemalteca / Marta Altolaguirre 153

9 The Right to Truth and the Right to Justice as Preconditions for the Rule of Law / Frank La Rue 173

10 The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in Guatemala / Richard Wilson 181

Part V. Political Reform 205

11 From Guerrillas to Politicians: The Transition of the Guatemalan Revolutionary Movement in Historical and Comparative Perspective / Anna Vinegrad 207

12 Una reforma politica para la paz / Alfonso Portillo 228

13 Los Acuerdos de Paz, los pueblos indigenas y la reforma politica / Rosalina Tuyuc 238.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, November 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-269).

ISBN:

1900039265

OCLC:

40840589