The Politics of Reconciliation after Civil War: Challenges and Advances in Central and South America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The multiple internal armed conflicts that convulsed many Latin American countries between the 1960s and the 1990s have ended, but overcoming their violent legacy and achieving reconciliation is proving to be arduous and challenging. The papers in this panel analyze a variety of examples of how state and civil society efforts are advancing toward this goal in areas most affected by the violence. These include local elections in Guatemala; elections, public education, and reparations in Peru; and comparing the range of state responses regarding reconciliation in El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, and Chile. The overall goal of the panel is to lay out and analyze some of the variety of responses pursued by states and civil societies to achieve some form of reconciliation and the lingering difficulties involved in achieving that goal

Sub Track

• Politics and Public Policy

Session Organizer

• David Scott Palmer, Boston University

Chair

• Christine J Wade, Washington College

Individual Presentations

• Overcoming State Repression: Political participation among Historically Marginalized Groups in Post-War Guatemala - Michael E Allison, University of Scranton; Kürşad Turan, Gazi University

• Peace in the Public Space: Comparative post-War Reconciliation and State Response in El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, and Chile - Christine J Wade, Washington College

• El reto de la reinsercion del estado en zonas de conflicto: Un estudio de la educacion publica en distritos lejanos del VRAEM peruano - Mariano Arones Palomino, Universidad de Huamanga

• Comportamiento electoral de poblaciones en zonas de conflicto y economias ilegales: El caso del VRAEM en Peru - Jefrey Antonio Gamarra Carrillo

• The Multiple Challanges of Post-Conflict Reconciliation through Government Reparations in Peru - David Scott Palmer, Boston University