Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America

Cynthia J Arnson

ISBN 10: 0804735891 / ISBN 13: 9780804735896

Edité par Stanford University Press Apr 1999, 1999

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Neuware - This book is about ending guerrilla conflicts in Latin America through political means. It is about peace processes, aimed at securing an end to military hostilities 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.

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• Titre: Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press Apr 1999
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0804735891
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780804735896
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 226 L x 152 H x 32 P (en millimètres) 226 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 32 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 771 grammes

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Synopsis

This book is about ending guerrilla conflicts in Latin America through political means. It is about peace processes, aimed at securing an end to military hostilities 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.

The book presents a carefully structured comparative analysis of six Latin American countries--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru--which experienced guerrilla warfare that outlasted the end of the Cold War. The book explores in detail the unique constellation of national and international events that allowed some wars to end in negotiated settlement, one to end in virtual defeat of the insurgents, and the others to rage on.

The aim of the book is to identify the variables that contribute to the success or failure of a peace dialogue. Though the individual case studies deal with dynamics that have allowed for or impeded successful negotiations, the contributors also examine comparatively such recurrent dilemmas as securing justice for victims of human rights abuses, reforming the military and police forces, and reconstructing the domestic economy.

Serving as a bridge between the distinct literatures on democratization in Latin America and on conflict resolution, the book underscores the reciprocal influences that peace processes and democratic transition have on each other, and the ways democratic "space" is created and political participation enhanced by means of a peace dialogue with insurgent forces.

The case studies--by country and issue specialists from Latin America, the United States, and Europe--are augmented by commentaries of senior practitioners most directly involved in peace negotiations, including United Nations officials, former peace advisers, and activists from civil society.

À propos de l?auteur

Cynthia J. Arnson is Senior Program Associate of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. She is the author, most recently, of Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976-1993.