Perspectives On War And Peace In Central America

Author : Sŭng-ho Kim,Thomas W. Walker
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172119579308

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Perspectives on War and Peace in Central America by Sŭng-ho Kim,Thomas W. Walker Pdf

This volume records the perspectives of a highly diverse group of prominent individuals who met late in 1988 in an important international symposium concerned with the continuing conflicts in Central America. Included are presentations by leading conservative and liberal scholar-authors; high ranking diplomats from the governments of Mexico, the United States, and Nicaragua; directors of conservative and liberal think tanks; a spokesperson for a state governor opposed to Ronald Reagan's policy of sending National Guard troops to "train" in Central America; a centrally involved media practitioner; and a media critic. It also includes an unofficial translation of the final report of the International Verification and Follow-up Commission established by the Arias Peace Agreement. A preface and an introduction by the editors set this lively and historic debate in context.

Author : Frank McNeil
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018591091

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War and Peace in Central America by Frank McNeil Pdf

A perspective on the Sandinista-Contra war by a former American ambassador to Costa Rica.

Author : Dirk Kruijt
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136960

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Guerrillas by Dirk Kruijt Pdf

Three parallel wars were fought in the latter half of the twentieth century in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. These wars were long and brutal, dividing international opinion sharply between US support for dictatorial regimes and the USSR’s sponsorship of guerrilla fighters. This fascinating study of the ‘guerrilla generation’ is based on in-depth interviews with both guerrilla comandantes and political and military leaders of the time. Dirk Kruijt analyses the dreams and achievements, the successes and failures, the utopias and dystopias of an entire Central American generation and its leaders. Guerrillas ranges widely, from the guerrilla movement’s origins in poverty, oppression and exclusion; its tactics in warfare; the ill-fated experiment with Sandinista government in Nicaragua; to the subsequent ‘normalization’ of guerrilla movements within democratic societies. The story told here is vital for understanding contemporary social movements in Latin America.

Author : Cynthia Arnson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Úrsula Oswald Spring,Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Jorge I Dominguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135564698

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Latin America's International Relations and Their Domestic Consequences by Jorge I Dominguez Pdf

First Published in 1994. Volume 6 in the 7-volume series titled Essays on Mexico, Central and South America: Scholarly Debates from the 1950s to the 1990s. The central scholarly articles concern interstate peace along with a U.S. propensity to intervene, and international structural vulnerabilities and economic asymmetries along with the significance of elite skills and choices. This title recognises that scholars have paid more attention to international economics in Latin America and seeks to balance the range study.

Author : Astvaldur Astvaldsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1634850939

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Violence and Endurance by Astvaldur Astvaldsson Pdf

Author : Dario Moreno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0813012740

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The Struggle for Peace in Central America by Dario Moreno Pdf

Contains primary source material.

Author : Percy Alvin Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:253660028

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Latin America and the War by Percy Alvin Martin Pdf

Author : Richard Haass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041776223

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The Reluctant Sheriff by Richard Haass Pdf

A beautiful collection of verse--both light and dark, elegiac and affirmative--from one of our most admired poets. The title Nothing by Design is taken from Salter's villanelle "Complaint for Absolute Divorce," in which we're asked to entertain the thought of a no-fault universe. The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied as "Our Friends the Enemy," about the Christmas football match between German and British soldiers in 1914; "The Afterlife," in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve the dead; and "Voice of America," where Salter returns to the Saint Petersburg of her exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as counterpoint to another series entitled "Bed of Letters," in which Salter addresses the end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness and loss in our lives.

Author : Bruce Michael Bagley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Dolores Moyano Martin,P. Sue Mundell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292752113

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Handbook of Latin American Studies by Dolores Moyano Martin,P. Sue Mundell Pdf

Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell has been assistant editor since 1994. The subject categories for Volume 55 are as follows: Anthropology (including Archaeology and Ethnology) Economics Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology

Author : Mary LeCron Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000678543

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Peace and War by Mary LeCron Foster Pdf

Is war necessary? In Peace and War prominent anthropologists and other social scientists explore the cultural and social factors leading to war. They analyze the covert causes of war from a cross-cultural perspective: ideologies that dispose people to war; underlying patterns of social relationships that help institutionalize war; and the cultural systems of military establishments. Overt causes of war—environmental factors like the control of scarce resources, advantageous territories, and technologies, or promoting the welfare of people “like” oneself—are also considered. The authors examine anthropologists’ role in policy formation—how their theories on the nature of culture and society help those who deal with global problems on a day-to-day basis. They argue that both covert and overt mechanisms are pushing the world closer to a devastating war and offer strategies to weaken the effects of these mechanisms. This anthropological and historical analysis of the causes of war is a valuable resource for those studying war and those trying to understand the place of social science in framing pacific options.

Author : Canada-Caribbean-Central America Policy Alternatives (Organization)
Publisher : Toronto, Ont., Canada : Between The Lines
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Canada
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018710350

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Between War and Peace in Central America by Canada-Caribbean-Central America Policy Alternatives (Organization) Pdf

Author : Brian J.R. Stevenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773568303

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Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism by Brian J.R. Stevenson Pdf

In Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism Brian Stevenson argues that Canada's foreign policy toward Latin America has been profoundly affected by these three factors and has evolved in response to both changing domestic demands and shifting international circumstances. By analysing a pivotal period in Canada-Latin American relations, he shows us how successive Canadian governments made important initiatives toward closer relationships with Latin America and were also pressured by non-governmental organizations to play a bigger role in the region. Canada's increased role can be seen in official foreign policy commitments, such as the decision to join the Organization of American States, and in policy decisions on political refugees. He explains that while the United States has played a key role in sometimes constraining Canadian foreign policy in the region, it is important to realize that Canadian foreign policy has been steadied by a long-standing tradition of internationalism. Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism demonstrates that the tradition of internationalism in Canadian foreign policy as viewed from the perspective of foreign policy analysis provides the framework within which to understand and accommodate changes in its policy toward Latin America. The period which the book explores is critical in order to understand the contemporary nature and future direction of Canada-Latin America relations.