Central America

Accords of the Guatemalen peace process

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process
Nov 1997

Promised the earth: Agrarian reform in the socio-economic agreement

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process
Nov 1997
Gustavo Palma Murga critiques the Agreement on Socio-Economic Issues and the Agrarian Situation, describing how piecemeal land reforms were agreed during negotiations, but failed to challenge the inequitable status quo.

Reframing citizenship: Indigenous rights, local power and the peace process in Guatemala

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process
Nov 1997
Rachel Sieder describes how indigenous Mayan civil society groups secured protection for their social cultural and political rights and assesses the opportunities and weaknesses presented by the accords.

Advocates and guarantors: Establishing participative democracy in post-war Guatemala

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process
Nov 1997
Tania Palencia Prado reviews the challenges to fulfilling the peace accords’ promise to establish participative democracy in Guatemala, covering political problems, weak implementation mechanisms and the role of UN bodies.

Violent truths: The politics of memory in Guatemala

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process
Nov 1997
Richard Wilson analyses the origins and work of Guatemala’s truth commission, the Commission for Historical Clarification, and the positive contributions of the Catholic Church’s 'Recovery of Historical Memory' project.

Historical background: Accord Guatemala

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process
Nov 1997
Patrick Costello provides a brief introduction to the history of Guatemala prior to 1987, tracing the roots and the evolution of the conflict.

Preface: Accord Guatemala

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process
Nov 1997
Jeremy Armon, Rachel Sieder and Richard Wilson introduce the Accord publication, highlighting the significance of Guatemala’s peace process, the phases of its transformation, and the outstanding challenges to peace.

Guatemala

The signing of peace agreements in 1996 ended 36 years of civil war between the Guatemalan government and the Marxist rebel army, the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit. 

Negotiating rights: The Guatemala peace process

Nov 1997

The signing of peace agreements in 1996 ended 36 years of civil war between the Guatemalan government and the Marxist rebel army, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit. The peace process went beyond an arrangement between armed groups, allowing regional and civic actors to advance their concerns on issues of social justice, political power-sharing and the rule of law.

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