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Author | : Geraldine M. McDonald |
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1998 |
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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the idea that acting collectively, in associations, ordinary people can play a useful peacebuilding role. In both El Salvador and Colombia, accords signed as a result of elite-led negotiations for peace have had limited effect in reducing levels of violence. This thesis considers that rather than focusing predominantly on what can be achieved through negotiations, a more useful approach would be to examine the kind of peacebuilding activities which ordinary people are able to engage in, given the surrounding constraints. Chapter one explores the historical contexts of conflict in El Salvador and Colombia. Chapter two establishes the conceptual framework for the thesis. It reviews several different bodies of literature and explains the main ideas to be explored through empirical analysis in the case study chapters. Chapters three and four explore the limitations of elite-led negotiations for peace in El Salvador and Colombia respectively. Chapter five empirically explores six grassroots peacebuilding initiatives which provides the basis for a typology of peacebuilding strategies from 'below'. Chapter six explores how to create an infrastructure for peace which can help protect and validate spaces for grassroots peacebuilding. The conclusion argues that the international community and intermediary organisations have a dual role to play in acting as facilitators between different levels of peacebuilding activity, and in trying to prise open and maintain spaces for grassroots peacebuilding.
Author | : Geraldine McDonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Colombia |
ISBN | : 9781852871840 |
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Author | : Margarita S. Studemeister |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Civil supremacy over the military |
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Author | : Diego A. Gantiva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1997-06-01 |
Genre | : Insurgency |
ISBN | : 9781423570189 |
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Colombia and El Salvador, two Latin American countries, have developed similar counterinsurgency processes and started similar processes of peace negotiations between the insurgent armies and the forces of order. One peace process was concluded in 1992, when El Salvador ended the war through a political solution (Peace Accords). Salvadoran insurgent forces agreed to demobilize its army and to become a legal political party, while the government agreed to make changes in the social and political structure. Colombia, after forty years of guerilla warfare and after failed peace talks during the last decade, is still trying to set conditions to gain peace through negotiations. The thesis, while contrasting both general contexts, emphasizes their differences to explain the success of the peace process in El Salvador and the failure in Colombia. After comparing the political actors involved - the military and the guerrillas, studying the intensity of the conflict, and analyzing the outcomes of the different peace processes, we arrived to the conclusion that the Salvadoran model of negotiation cannot be applied entirely to the Colombian case. Similarly, no government should try to copy the Salvadoran recipe as the remedy for their own social and political problems. Any simplistic interpretation should be avoided because it could lead to fallacies that could generate dangerous interpretations by the key actors in the process.
Author | : Diego A. Gantiva Arias |
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Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Colombia and El Salvador, two Latin American countries, have developed similar counterinsurgency processes and started similar processes of peace negotiations between the insurgent armies and the forces of order. One peace process was concluded in 1992, when El Salvador ended the war through a political solution (Peace Accords). Salvadoran insurgent forces agreed to demobilize its army and to become a legal political party, while the government agreed to make changes in the social and political structure. Colombia, after forty years of guerrilla warfare and after failed peace talks during the last decade, is still trying to set conditions to gain peace through negotiations. The thesis, while contrasting both general contexts, emphasizes their differences to explain the success of the peace process in El Salvador and the failure in Colombia. After comparing the political actors involved - the military and the guerrillas, studying the intensity of the conflict, and analyzing the outcomes of the different peace processes, we arrived to the conclusion that the Salvadoran model of negotiation cannot be applied entirely to the Colombian case. Similarly, no government should try to copy the Salvadoran recipe as the remedy for their own social and political problems. Any simplistic interpretation should be avoided because it could lead to fallacies that could generate dangerous interpretations by the key actors in the process.
Author | : Diego Gantiva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Insurgency |
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Download The Peace Processes of Colombia and El Salvador: A Comparative Study Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Colombia and El Salvador, two Latin American countries, have developed similar counterinsurgency processes and started similar processes of peace negotiations between the insurgent armies and the forces of order. One peace process was concluded in 1992, when El Salvador ended the war through a political solution (Peace Accords). Salvadoran insurgent forces agreed to demobilize its army and to become a legal political party, while the government agreed to make changes in the social and political structure. Colombia, after forty years of guerilla warfare and after failed peace talks during the last decade, is still trying to set conditions to gain peace through negotiations. The thesis, while contrasting both general contexts, emphasizes their differences to explain the success of the peace process in El Salvador and the failure in Colombia. After comparing the political actors involved - the military and the guerrillas, studying the intensity of the conflict, and analyzing the outcomes of the different peace processes, we arrived to the conclusion that the Salvadoran model of negotiation cannot be applied entirely to the Colombian case. Similarly, no government should try to copy the Salvadoran recipe as the remedy for their own social and political problems. Any simplistic interpretation should be avoided because it could lead to fallacies that could generate dangerous interpretations by the key actors in the process.
Author | : Kees Biekart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Download The Politics of Civil Society Building Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Strengthening civil society may be all the rage in the international donor community, but what does it mean in practice? This seminal work critically examines the political aspects of civil society building and the role of non-governmental development aid agencies during recent democratic transitions in Central America.
Author | : Pedro Valenzuela |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Civil war |
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Author | : Stella Sacipa-Rodriguez |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2014-03-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3319045490 |
Download Psychosocial Approaches to Peace-Building in Colombia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edited volume summarizes the work of a research group, called Social Bonds and Cultures of Peace that accompanies and supports victims of socio-political violence in Columbia. The individual chapters focus on the ongoing violence in the Colombian context, a complex and dynamic area in which various groups (drug traffickers, national armed forces, guerrilla fighters, self-defence groups) have been engaged in organized violence for more than 60 years. Emphasis is placed on the psychological consequences of violence and various forms of psychosocial support that psychologists have been providing to the victims of violence. Central to their work is the notion of "accompanying" those who have been victims of violence, listening to them, engaging them in dialogue and working together to strengthen the resources of victims. The recovery of individual and collective memories of atrocities is discussed as an important avenue for healing and for the empowerment of individuals and groups. The solidarity among victims creates opportunities at the grassroots level to pursue truth, reveal perpetrators of violence, seek public acknowledgment and attain social justice. For perpetrators of violence and members of armed groups, the book addresses a host of psychosocial issues related to disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating former combatants, including children, into society. Throughout the book, in the spirit of peace psychology, the researchers are engaged in a form of praxis that is cognizant of the wider geohistorical context within which victims and perpetrators are embedded and the dialectical relationship between micro and macro-level events and change. Researchers in Latin American studies, peace psychology, social justice and transitional justice, will find this volume to be an excellent resource.
Author | : Judaman Seecoomar |
Publisher | : Peepal Tree Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
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Examining the conflict in Guyana, the author finds a country floundering in ethnic insecurity that the state has failed to constructively address, guaranteeing continuing violence and instability. He examines the roots of conflict between Afro-Guyanese and Indian-Guyanese, arguing that the state's continuing reliance on coercive force to repress minorities will fail to end the conflict. He proposes a model called Collaborative Analytical Problem Solving as a framework for ending the conflict and briefly examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the South African experience as lessons in conflict resolution. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR