Seeking peace in El Salvador
Subtitle: the struggle to reconstruct a nation at the end of the Cold War
By: Diana Villiers Negroponte
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780230120945
Subjects: Politics and government; International Mediation; United Nations. Observer Mission in El Salvador; Peacekeeping forces; International cooperation; Peace-building; United Nations; History
Description: 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 examines how peace was made and whether it has endured.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Theoretical issues in El Salvador's peace process; title: Ancient conflicts, modern violence: the causes and context for civil war; title: Internal forces struggle to resolve the civil war; title: Internal pressures for ending Salvador's civil war; title: The United States: protagonist or mediator?; title: External influences on the negotiations to end the war in El Salvador; title: Introducing the United Nations; title: Four critical moments in the negotiations; title: Implementation of the Chapultepec Accords: the achievements; title: Challenges to the peace accords.