Today marks the 24th anniversary of the signing of El Salvador’s Peace Accords, the agreement which ended the country’s decade-plus civil war. The signing of the peace accords was a remarkable development at the time and the accords remain one of the world’s most successful peace agreements to end a civil war. Unfortunately, celebrating the accords this year seems somewhat hollow given the challenges of the last few years. Here are some posts from my friends and me reflecting on different aspects of the accords.
El Salvador’s peace accords stand alone (October 2014)
When I was in El Salvador this summer I was having a conversation with some US officials. At one point they asked, “so where is an example of a successful negotiated settlement to civil war?” Their question didn’t come out of nowhere but based upon some things that I was telling them. They were disappointed when I told them that El Salvador is generally considered one of the most successful examples of civil war resolution via negotiated settlement.
70% of Salvadorans supported peace accords in Feb 1992 (May 2014)
El Salvador’s brutal civil war: What we still don’t know (March 2012)
Christine Wade on El Salvador: Not what it was, but not what it might have been (January 2012) (See also her new book on Captured Peace: Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador)
Alberto Martin Alvarez on El Salvador a veinte años de los Acuerdos de Paz: Cambio político y sociedad civil (January 2012)
Can El Salvador continue to resist calls to investigate war time atrocities? (February 2013) Perhaps 2016 will be the year that resistance ends.
