Grassroots peacemaking : the paradox of “reconciliation” in El Salvador

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dc.contributor.advisorSpeed, Shannon, 1964-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHale, Charles R.en
dc.creatorVelásquez Estrada, R. Elizabethen
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-13T18:49:56Zen
dc.date.available2011-07-13T18:49:56Zen
dc.date.issued2011-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2011en
dc.date.updated2011-07-13T18:50:01Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how ex-combatants of El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war view post-war processes of reconciliation. I demonstrate that contrary to dominant understandings of ongoing political polarization in El Salvador, perpetuated by Salvadoran political parties, many former army and guerrilla combatants are coexisting in the same communities and working together in various ways. I show how the Salvadoran Peace Accords and the apparent political polarization has opened a space for the recreation of social networks and the creation of communities in post-war societies. I call this process “grassroots peacemaking,”emphasizing the everyday negotiations of remembering and creating new social relations in a nation torn apart by war and violence.en
dc.description.departmentAnthropologyen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.slug2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3701en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3701en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectEl Salvadoren
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.subject1979-1992en
dc.subjectCivil War, 1977-en
dc.subjectReconciliationen
dc.subjectPeace makingen
dc.subjectCommunity buildingen
dc.subjectPeace treatiesen
dc.titleGrassroots peacemaking : the paradox of “reconciliation” in El Salvadoren
dc.type.genrethesisen
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropologyen
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropologyen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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