Seeking Peace in El Salvador

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.

A history of the civil war in El Salvador, its causes and key issues in negotiating peace Conflict resolution: the process by which third party negotiators nudge and bully the protagonists towards peace, is a hot topic right now, especially given the unrest in the Middle East Analysis of nation building in postconflict situations: the nation goes throughformal demobilization and reconciliation, but conflict reemerges in other forms

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Diana Villiers Negroponte is a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, USA.

Inhalt
Theoretical Issues in El Salvador's Peace Process
Ancient Conflicts Modern Violence: The Causes And Context for Civil War
Internal Forces Struggle to Resolve the Civil War PartI the FMLN
Internal Pressures for Ending Salvador's Civil War PartII the Jesuits and ARENA
The United States: Protagonist or Mediator?
External Influences on the Negotiations To End the War in El Salvador
Introducing the United Nations
Four Critical Moments in the Negotiations
Implementation of the Chapultepec Accords: The Achievements
Challenges to the Peace Accords