Seeking Peace in El Salvador - The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War (Hardcover)

At the end of the Cold War, the determination of both superpowers to withdraw from Central America gave space to the Salvadoran government and the Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) to seek peace. For close to two years, they fought and talked under strong external pressure. The UN played a central mediating role, a first for the organization within the American hemisphere. Negroponte here analyzes the peace process in Washington, Moscow, and El Salvador, examining the work of Alvaro de Soto, the establishment of a UN Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the peace keeping role of ONUSAL. She scrutinizes the ramifications of this process: in 1992, the protagonists reached a peace accord, but El Salvador has not been able to create strong democratic institutions that an withstand further violence. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work examines how peace was made and questions whether it has endured. Are the current levels of criminal violence a consequence of that civil war?

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	D. Negroponte
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-12094-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Diplomacy Promotions
LSN:	0-230-12094-6
Barcode:	9780230120945

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