Publications & Tools

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June 2011 | Book by Bertram I. Spector

In Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption, Bertram Spector argues that the peace negotiation table is the best place to lay the groundwork for good governance.

March 2011

The United States Institute of Peace’s Truth Commissions Digital Collection is part of the Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management.  The collection contains profiles of truth commissions and substantive bodies of inquiry from nations worldwide - offering general background information on the composition of each body, links to the official legislative texts establishing such commissions, and each commission's final reports and findings.

January 2007 | Book by Charles T. Call, editor
In Constructing Justice and Security after War, the distinguished contributors—including scholars, criminal justice practitioners, and former senior officials of international missions—examine the experiences of countries that have recently undergone transitions from conflict with significant international involvement. The volume offers generalizations based on careful comparisons of justice and security reforms in some of the most prominent and successful cases of transitions from war of the 1990s drawn from Central America, Africa, the Balkans, and East Timor.
 
April 2001
Countries: El Salvador
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January 2001 | Peaceworks by Edited by Margarita S. Studemeister

This report sets out to assess the significance of the implementation of the 1992 Chapultepec Accords nearly ten years after the initiation of negotiations under United Nations auspices.

Countries: El Salvador
June 1998 | Book by Cynthia McClintock

The author examines the complex interplay among political and economic factors, the nature of the revolutionary organization, and international actors.  The end of the Cold War does not mean the end of revolutionary groups, and that the United States can play an important role in determining the outcome of future confrontations.

Countries: El Salvador, Peru
April 1996 | Book by Fen Osler Hampson

Focusing on intrastate conflicts in which third parties have played prominent roles, Hampson argues that durable settlements depend on sustained third-party engagement not only during the negotiation phase but throughout the implementation process.

Credit: CIA World Factbook
July 1992

Truth Commission: Commission on the Truth for El Salvador
Duration: 1992 – 1993
Charter: El Salvador: Mexico Peace Agreements—Provisions Creating the Commission on Truth
Commissioners: 3
Report: Public report

 

Countries: El Salvador, North America | Issue Areas: Rule of Law