In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the
Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a
beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict. Twenty
years later, the new era of political protest in Guatemala is
highly complex and contradictory: the persistence of colonialism,
fraught indigenous-settler relations, political exclusion,
corruption, criminal impunity, gendered violence, judicial
procedures conducted under threat, entrenched inequality, as well
as economic fragility. Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala
examines the complexities of the quest for justice in Guatemala,
and the realities of both new forms of resistance and long-standing
obstacles to the rule of law in the human and environmental realms.
Written by prominent scholars and activists, this book explores
high-profile trials, the activities of foreign mining companies,
attempts to prosecute war crimes, and cultural responses to
injustice in literature, feminist performance art and the media.
The challenges to human and environmental capacities for justice
are constrained, or facilitated, by factors that shape culture,
politics, society, and the economy. The contributors to this volume
include Guatemalans such as the human rights activist Helen Mack
Chang, the environmental journalist Magali Rey Rosa, former
Guatemalan Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, as well as widely
published Guatemala scholars.
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