Captured Peace: Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador (Ohio RIS Latin America Series)

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El Salvador is widely regarded as one of the successful United Nations peacebuilding efforts, but record homicide rates, political polarization, socioeconomic exclusion, and corruption have diminished the quality of peace for lots of of its citizens. In Captured Peace: Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador, Christine J. Wade adapts the concept that of elite capture to expand at the idea of “captured peace,” explaining how local elites commandeered political, social, and economic affairs before war’s end and then used the peace accords to deepen their regulate in these spheres.

While much scholarship has focused at the role of gangs in Salvadoran unrest, Wade draws on an exhaustive range of sources to demonstrate how daily violence is inextricable from the economic and political dimensions. On this in-depth analysis of postwar politics in El Salvador, she highlights the local actors’ number one role in peacebuilding and demonstrates the political advantage an incumbent party — On this case, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) — has all the way through the peace process and the consequences of this to the quality of peace that results.

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