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This article uses the 'concept of history' of Walter Benjamin, to unearth the historical importance of a moment of peasant resistance in Chalatenango, El Salvador, at the beginning of the 1980s. The communities of the northeast of this department, not only suffered a savage exploitation and repression, but also organized their own Local Popular Pow...
Leigh Binford, The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2016), pp. xxii + 377, $34.95, pb - Volume 50 Issue 3 - JENNY PEARCE
Erik Ching , Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), pp. xiv + 345, $32.00, pb. - Volume 49 Issue 3 - JENNY PEARCE
p>Este documento explora las herramientas conceptuales para invertir significados en la palabra “paz” para alentar un debate más amplio y profundo sobre los significados del Acuerdo de 1992 a la luz de las violencias de la posguerra. La paz corre el peligro de ser un “significante vacío” si no está invertido en significados filosóficos y prácticos...
El libro Conflicto armado, justicia y memoria, en sus tres tomos, pretende ser una contribución al entendimiento del pasado violento de nuestro país y a la comprensión de las condiciones necesarias para la edificación de un futuro en paz. Historiar el pasado violento para que éste no pase a la historia, pero, asimismo, para que este no tenga más fu...
El libro Conflicto armado, justicia y memoria, en sus tres tomos, pretende ser una contribución al entendimiento del pasado violento de nuestro país y a la comprensión de las condiciones necesarias para la edificación de un futuro en paz. Historiar el pasado violento para que éste no pase a la historia, pero, asimismo, para que este no tenga más fu...
This article explores the potential contribution to a better understanding and practice of urban security from participatory research methodologies with communities most affected by insecurity and violence. It focusses on the case of Medellín, Colombia, and analyses the key features and impacts of what is known as the ‘Medellín Model’, an approach...
This collection of short, accessible essays proposes a new theoretical agenda for participatory democracy. Calls for increased participation are becoming ubiquitous throughout social life, from politics to community engagement, and from the arts to education. These demands raise important problems and trouble many dominant assumptions about the nat...
In the Introduction, we distinguished two frameworks for understanding our case studies: ‘participatory governance’ and ‘participatory democracy’. An initial task of this conclusion is to discuss how far these illuminate differences in the participatory experiments we tracked. The Introduction also identified two research goals. The first was to le...
Participation is not just about democracy. It is also about how we relate to each other in all our spaces of encounter. Do we give space to the other person to have an equal part in the encounter, or do we begin from the premise of a one-way communication? Our research could not study participation and fail to ask how we intended to relate to resea...
This chapter explores the disconnect between the grassroots, the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) and City Hall. Although new spaces for participation in the city opened up in the new millennium, they remained embedded in a complex set of established relationships and patterns of decision making. In Manchester City Council’s bid for global city...
Portraits of Fidel Castro
Yes This paper is about civil society participation in two contexts of chronic violence: Colombia and Guatemala. It explores the extent to which civil society organisations can build citizenship in such contexts and simultaneously address violence. It argues that civil society organisations can play a vital role in building citizenship and confront...
Jenny Pearce enters a plea to learn some of the lessons from the vast amount of resources, human and capital, in peace building. She identifies some of the key lessons emerging from peacebuilding thinking and practice over the last decade. She looks at the three ‘levels’ in which the global peacebuilding project has been developed: the ‘internation...
No Incorporated into the discourse of academics, policymakers, and grassroots activists, of multilateral development agencies and local NGOs alike, "civil society" has become a topic of widespread discussion. But is there in fact any common understanding of the term? How useful is it when applied to the South, and what difference does it make to br...
The study of women’s empowerment, in all the meanings outlined in this volume by Rowlands, must rest on the conceptualisation and analysis of gender relations, as the other chapters in the volume amply demonstrate. Yet such a conceptualisation and analysis is still rarely located within other concerns of social science. The engendering of a discipl...
A Salvadorean newspaper once referred to the northern third of El Salvador, of which the department of Chalatenango is a substantial slice, as the tierra olvidada (’forgotten land’) of the present century. This area was less directly affected by the agricultural transformation which took place in central and southern El Salvador in the nineteenth a...
We have seen how FECCAS was radicalized initially through the influence of the church’s pastoral work, culminating in its decision to join the BPR in 1975 and the publication of its statement of principles in October of that year. At the same time, the peasant leaders, many of them Delegates or Preparadores of the Word, began an intense process of...
No Are oil-rich countries prone to war? And, if so, why? There is a widely held belief that contemporary wars are motivated by the desire of great powers like the United States or Russia to control precious oil resources and to ensure energy security. This book argues that the main reason why oil-rich countries are prone to war is because of the ch...
yes The conference Participation and Community Cohesion in the North: making the connections was held two and a half years after the North of England experienced a summer of major social unrest.1 One delegate described these disturbances as ‘attempted suicide by a community – a cry for help.’ This is a controversial image of powerlessness and disen...
yes Este documento de investigación del ICPS es un reporte final de un proceso de cuatro años, en el que se realizaron visitas de intercambio entre oficiales de policía de dos distintos pero problemáticos contextos urbanos, así como una reflexión académica sobre lo que nos enseñó acerca de la construcción de seguridad en tales contextos. Esperamos...
