Comparative Peace Processes In Latin America

Author : Cynthia Arnson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804735891

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Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America by Cynthia Arnson Pdf

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.

Author : Cynthia Arnson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804776679

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In the Wake of War by Cynthia Arnson Pdf

In the Wake of War assesses the consequences of civil war for democratization in Latin America, focusing on questions of state capacity. Contributors focus on seven countries--Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru--where state weakness fostered conflict and the task of state reconstruction presents multiple challenges. In addition to case studies, the book explores cross-cutting themes including the role of the international community in supporting peace, the explosion of post-war criminal and social violence, and the value of truth and historical clarification. This book completes a fifteen-year project, "Program on Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America," which also led to the 1999 publication of the book Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America.

Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring,Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319738086

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Risks, Violence, Security and Peace in Latin America by Úrsula Oswald Spring,Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald Pdf

This book analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets, schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin America. It examines the nonviolent negotiations, human rights, peacebuilding and education, explores security in cyberspace and proposes to overcome xenophobia, white supremacy, sexism, and homophobia, where social inequality increases injustice and violence. During the past 40 years of the Latin American Council for Peace Research (CLAIP) regional conditions have worsened. Environmental justice was crucial in the recent peace process in Colombia, but also in other countries, where indigenous people are losing their livelihood and identity. Since the end of the cold war, capitalism aggravated the life conditions of poor people. The neoliberal dismantling of the State reduced their rights and wellbeing in favour of enterprises. Youth are not only the most exposed to violence, but represent also the future for a different management of human relations and nature.

Author : Margarita S. Studemeister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civil supremacy over the military
ISBN : IND:30000078173329

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El Salvador by Margarita S. Studemeister Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : International relations
ISBN : UCBK:C089039476

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Peaceworks by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack Child,International Peace Academy
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0898389275

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Regional Cooperation for Development and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in Latin America by Jack Child,International Peace Academy Pdf

Of the workshop and the discussions / Jack Child -- Development and democracy: their relationship to peace and security / Oscar Camilión -- Development and democracy: their relationship to peace and security / Howard J. Wiarda -- Social reconciliation in Colombia / Jesús Antonio Bejarano -- The superpowers and Latin American conflict / S. Neil MacFarlane -- Interstate conflicts in Latin America and the search for solutions: five illustrative cases / Jack Child -- Confidence-building measures and the arms limitations process / Alejandro San Martín -- The future role of third-party neutrals in peacekeeping operations and observance of agreements in the Americas / Gastón Ibáñez O'Brien.

Author : Diego A. Gantiva,Marco A. Palacios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Insurgency
ISBN : 1423570189

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The Peace Processes of Colombia and El Salvador by Diego A. Gantiva,Marco A. Palacios Pdf

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 : Jorge I. Dominguez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822975007

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International Security and Democracy by Jorge I. Dominguez Pdf

Domínguez has drawn together fifteen leading scholars on international relations and comparative politics from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, thus bringing to bear varying national perspectives from several corners of the hemisphere to analyze the intersection between regional security issues and the democracy building process in Latin America.

Author : Bruce Michael Bagley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Central America
ISBN : 0367005417

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Contadora and the Central American Peace Process by Bruce Michael Bagley Pdf

The political, economic, and social problems of Central America during the past four years have at times threatened to escalate into a generalized conflict. Intense diplomatic efforts to find peaceful solutions to the crisis, however, have met with only limited success. Negotiations have collapsed amid bitter accusations of intransigence or bad faith, and some have taken place outside of public scrutiny, resulting in widespread confusion that has surrounded the entire peace process. This book is an effort by the Central American and Caribbean Program at the School of Advanced International Studies to shed light on the crucial roles of the Contadora Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela) in forging peace in the region. Containing a collection of nearly one hundred statements, declarations, proposals, resolutions, draft treaties, and official documents, it easily constitutes the most comprehensive reference work on the search for peace in Central America. In order to improve readability, slight adjustments have been made to some of the documents.

Author : Elin Skaar,Jemima Garcia-Godos,Cath Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317526209

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Transitional Justice in Latin America by Elin Skaar,Jemima Garcia-Godos,Cath Collins Pdf

This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America – effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times. Using a comparative approach, it examines trajectories in truth, justice, reparations, and amnesties in countries emerging from periods of massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The book examines the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, developing and applying a common analytical framework to provide a systematic, qualitative and comparative analysis of their transitional justice experiences. More specifically, the book investigates to what extent there has been a shift from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in Latin America. Using ‘thick’, but structured, narratives – which allow patterns to emerge, rather than being imposed – the book assesses how the quality, timing and sequencing of transitional justice mechanisms, along with the context in which they appear, have mattered for the nature and impact of transitional justice processes in the region. Offering a new approach to assessing transitional justice, and challenging many assumptions in the established literature, this book will be of enormous benefit to scholars and others working in this area.

Author : Cécile Mouly,Esperanza Hernández Delgado
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030050327

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Civil Resistance and Violent Conflict in Latin America by Cécile Mouly,Esperanza Hernández Delgado Pdf

This book explores distinct forms of civil resistance in situations of violent conflict in cases across Latin America, drawing important lessons learned for nonviolent struggles in the region and beyond. The authors analyse campaigns against armed actors in situations of internal armed conflict, against private sector companies that seek to exploit natural resources, and against the state in defence of housing rights, to cite only some scenarios of violent conflict in which people in Latin America have organized to resist imposition by powerful actors and/or confront violence and oppression. Each of the nine cases studied looks at the violent context in which civil resistance took place, its modality, its results and the factors that influenced these, as well as the challenges faced, offering useful insights for scholars and practitioners alike.

Author : Kirk S. Bowman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271046464

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Militarization, Democracy, and Development by Kirk S. Bowman Pdf

Do Third World countries benefit from having large militaries, or does this impede their development? Kirk Bowman uses statistical analysis to demonstrate that militarization has had a particularly malignant impact in this region. For his quantitative comparison he draws on longitudinal data for a sample of 76 developing countries and for 18 Latin American nations. To illuminate the causal mechanisms at work, Bowman offers a detailed comparison of Costa Rica and Honduras between 1948 and 1998. The case studies not only serve to bolster his general argument about the harmful effects of militarization but also provide many new insights into the processes of democratic consolidation and economic transformation in these two Central American countries.

Author : Javier Santiso,Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199747504

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The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy by Javier Santiso,Jeff Dayton-Johnson Pdf

Understanding Latin America's recent economic performance calls for a multidisciplinary analysis. This handbook looks at the interaction of economics and politics in the region and includes a number of contributions from top academic experts who have also served as key policy makers (a former president, ministers of finance, a central bank governor), reflecting upon the challenges of reform.

Author : Alpaslan Özerdem,Roger Mac Ginty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315436593

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Comparing Peace Processes by Alpaslan Özerdem,Roger Mac Ginty Pdf

This book offers a comparative survey of 18 contemporary peace processes conducted by leading international scholars. There is no standard model of peace processes and all will vary according to the context, type of conflict, timing, national and global economic climate, and factors like natural disasters. Therefore, making comparisons between peace processes is difficult, but it is beneficial – indeed, imperative – and is the principal motivation behind this volume. What works in one context may not work in another, but it can be modified and adapted to fit another context. The book is structured to maximise comparison between processes, and the case studies chosen are topical and span the major regions of the world. The concluding chapter systematically compares the case studies around 11 variables that cover the conflict context, peace process procedures, the responsiveness of the peace process to demands, and levels of participation and inclusion. Each peace process is then given a numeric score according to each of these variables, and the book thereby reaches judgements on whether each case can be termed a ‘success’ or a ‘failure’. This book will be essential reading for students of peace studies, conflict resolution, war and conflict studies, security studies, and IR.

Author : Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791439585

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Zones of Peace in the Third World by Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

Provides a critique and an extention of the "democratic peace" theory by focusing on the regional level and by offering alternative explanations for the maintenance of democratic and non-democratic "zones of peace."