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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 124
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The purpose of this research is to determine if the Guatemalan military has successfully transitioned from a wartime counterinsurgency military to a professional peacetime military subordinated to civilian control within a democracy. In December of 1996, the Guatemalan government and the insurgent representatives signed the final Peace Accord that brought an end to the country's thirty-six years of civil war. Since then, the Guatemalan military has had four years in which to transition from war to peace and to fulfill the requirements of the Peace Accords. This study develops a set of criteria that indicate a successful transition from a counterinsurgency military to a professional peacetime military. Next, this study determines the disposition of the Guatemalan military prior to the declared peace, examines relevant requirements of the Peace Accords, determines the current disposition of the Guatemalan military, and then compares all three in order to establish whether or not the Guatemalan military has successfully transitioned to a professional peacetime military subordinated to civilian control within a democracy. This study concludes by identifying what else the Guatemalan military must do in order to continue its transition and how the United States can support those efforts.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
The purpose of this research is to determine if the Guatemalan military has successfully transitioned from a wartime counterinsurgency military to a professional peacetime military subordinated to civilian control within a democracy. In December of 1996, the Guatemalan government and the insurgent representatives signed the final Peace Accord that brought an end to the country's thirty-six years of civil war. Since then, the Guatemalan military has had four years in which to transition from war to peace and to fulfill the requirements of the Peace Accords. This study develops a set of criteria that indicate a successful transition from a counterinsurgency military to a professional peacetime military. Next, this study determines the disposition of the Guatemalan military prior to the declared peace, examines relevant requirements of the Peace Accords, determines the current disposition of the Guatemalan military, and then compares all three in order to establish whether or not the Guatemalan military has successfully transitioned to a professional peacetime military subordinated to civilian control within a democracy. This study concludes by identifying what else the Guatemalan military must do in order to continue its transition and how the United States can support those efforts.
Author: Jennifer Schirmer Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812200594 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 364
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In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 1996. The commission, sponsored by the UN, estimates the conflict resulted in 200,000 deaths and disappearances. The commission holds the Guatemalan military responsible for 93 percent of the deaths. In The Guatemalan Military Project, Jennifer Schirmer documents the military's role in human rights violations through a series of extensive interviews striking in their brutal frankness and unique in their first-hand descriptions of the campaign against Guatemala's citizens. High-ranking officers explain in their own words their thoughts and feelings regarding violence, political opposition, national security doctrine, democracy, human rights, and law. Additional interviews with congressional deputies, Guatemalan lawyers, journalists, social scientists, and a former president give a full and balanced account of the Guatemalan power structure and ruling system. With expert analysis of these interviews in the context of cultural, legal, and human rights considerations, The Guatemalan Military Project provides a successful evaluation of the possibilities and processes of conversion from war to peace in Latin America and around the world.
Author: Susanne Jonas Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429978227 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 282
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"In a century of horrors, Guatemala from 1954 to the present has been a bloody scene of some of the worst horrors—and the United States has been deeply involved. Drawing upon 30 years of experience in Central America, hundreds of interviews, and analyses of the vast documentary materials, Susanne Jonas masterfully explains not only how the Guatemalan tragedies, the U.S. involvement, and the stumbling 1990s peace process developed. She also raises fundamental questions about the badly misunderstood and much over-hyped 'democratic transition' supposedly occurring in Guatemala and elsewhere in the region." —Walter LaFeber Cornell University, author of Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America
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Report on a workshop co-convened by the World Bank and The Carter Center in February 1997. The meeting, which focused on the experiences of Guatemala and Liberia, was part of the World Bank's global workshop series on transitions from war to peace.
Author: D. Rothenberg Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137011149 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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This edited, one-volume version presents the first ever English translation of the report of The Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), a truth commission that exposed the details of 'la violenca,' during which hundreds of massacres were committed in a scorched-earth campaign that displaced approximately one million people.
Author: Deborah J. Yashar Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107178479 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 443
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Latin America has among the world's highest homicide rates. The author analyzes the illicit organizations, complicit and weak states, and territorial competition that generate today's violent homicidal ecologies.
Author: Beatriz Manz Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520246751 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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An account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Manz, an anthropologist, spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala. In a political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s, Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives. From publisher description.
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