Enabling Peace in Guatemala: The Story of MINUGUA (Histories of Un Peace Operations)

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William Stanley tells the absorbing story of the UN peace operation in Guatemala’s ten-year endeavor (1994-2004) to build conditions that would sustain a lasting peace in the country. Abnormal among UN peace efforts on account of its in large part civilian nature, its General Assembly mandate, and its heavy reliance on UN volunteers to workforce field offices, the mission (MINUGUA) focused to start with on human rights. Beginning in 1997, alternatively, its scope expanded to include verification of the full range of peace accords designed to end nearly four decades of civil war between the government and the revolutionary insurgency. MINUGUA faced a challenging political context. The government that signed the peace accords proved unable or unwilling to put in force them, and the progress of successive governments used to be modest at best. The mission also grappled with uncooperative political elites and persistent state corruption, organized crime, and social inequality. Stanley chronicles a series of strategic―and once in a while experimental―choices from the UN’s viewpoint and provides a cautionary tale about the limits of international benevolence.

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