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?

The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work questions how peace was made and whether it has endured.

The CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report, Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet, finds that as more people and services become interconnected and dependent on the Internet, societies are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. To support security, innovation, growth, and the free flow of information, the Task Force recommends that the United States and its partners work to build a cyber alliance, make the free flow of information a part of all future trade agreements, and articulate an inclusive and robust vision of Internet governance. The Task Force is chaired by John D. Negroponte, former deputy secretary of state and director of national intelligence, and Samuel J. Palmisano, former chairman of the board and CEO of IBM, and is directed by Adam Segal, CFR's Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow in China Studies. The Task Force includes distinguished members and observers from industry, academia, and nonprofits.