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Choosing to engage: Armed groups and peace processes

May 2005
Accord Armed Groups: Cover image
Accord issue 16 explores the case for engagement with armed groups and the lessons learned from peacemaking practice. Highlighting both opportunities and challenges, it suggests that the range of engagement options and potential interveners makes a strong case for engagement.

Opcinoes de compromiso: Apercamientos con grupos armados en procesos de paz

May 2005
Eligiendo el compromiso: grupos armados y procesos de paz (Accord N°16, 2005) explora casos de compromiso con grupos armados y las lecciones aprendidas para las prácticas de construcción de paz.

Haciendo propio el proceso: La participación ciudadana en los procesos de paz

Jun 2004
Haciendo propio el proceso: La participación ciudadana en los procesos de paz

The process for making a transition from war to peace provides an opportunity to agree new political, constitutional and economic arrangements that can deal with the roots of a conflict. However such decisions are often made solely by governments and armed groups’ representatives, who do not always represent the wider public’s interests.

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking

Dec 2002

The process for making a transition from war to peace provides an opportunity to agree new political, constitutional and economic arrangements that can deal with the roots of a conflict. However such decisions are often made solely by governments and armed groups’ representatives, who do not always represent the wider public’s interests.

The Civil Society Assembly: Shaping agreement

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking
Dec 2002
Enrique Alvarez describes the structures of Guatemala’s Civil Society Assembly, the challenges it faced in establishing consensus between diverse social sectors and influencing the bilateral negotiating process, and assesses its successes, failures and ultimate demise.

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.

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.

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