Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 2000.

xix, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-280) and index.

Foreword / Sir Marrack Goulding -- The Emotional Roller Coaster -- December 1996: Vamonos, Patria, a Caminar -- Mid-1999: Guatephrenia -- The Project of This Book -- Centaurs and Doves -- Methodology: Binational and Multiperspective Constructions -- Lecturas or Readings of History -- Background: Guatemala's Thirty-Six-Year Civil War -- Antecedents: U.S. Intervention and Its Aftermath -- Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 1970s-1980s -- Recomposition of the Counterinsurgency State and Return to Civilian Rule -- Social Crisis and Reemergence of Social Movements -- Context for Beginning a Peace Process -- A Note on Contested Issues Concerning the War -- The Mined Road to Peace -- 1986-1990: Initial Dialogues -- 1991-1993: Bilateral Negotiations, Guatemalan "Conciliator," -- 1994-1995: Initial UN-Moderated Negotiations -- MINUGUA I (1994-1996): The Human Rights Mission -- Changed Chemistry in 1996: Arzu and the Endgame Dynamics -- Guatemalan Peace in the International Limelight -- Preliminary Lessons and Mines in the Road Ahead -- The Terms of Peace -- Democratization (July 1991) -- Acuerdo Marco/Framework Accord (January 1994) -- Comprehensive Accord on Human Rights (March 1994) -- Resettlement of Population Groups Uprooted by Armed Conflict (June 1994) -- Historical Clarification Commission (June 1994) -- Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples (March 1995) -- Social and Economic Aspects and Agrarian Situation (May 1996) -- Strengthening of Civilian Power and Role of the Armed Forces in a Democratic Society (September 1996).

Guatemala -- Politics and government -- 1985-

Negotiation -- Guatemala -- History.

Guatemala -- Relations -- United States.

United States -- Relations -- Guatemala.

Human rights -- Guatemala -- History.

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