Jennifer Schirmer

Harvard University Press

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The limits of reform

Jennifer Schirmer

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Colombia : building peace in a time of war

Borja Paladini Adell Raúl Rosende Juan Pablo Guzmán Chaves Gabriel Turriago James Clyde Jones

Introduction - Virginia M. Bouvier Part I: National Initiatives for Peace Origins, Evolution, and Lessons of the Colombian Peace Movement - Adam Isacson and Jorge Rojas Rodriguez Colombia's Peace Processes (1982-2002) - Carlo Nasi The FARC at the Negotiating Table - Mike Chernick The ELN's Halting Moves toward Peace - Leon Valencia From Greed to Grievance - Winifred Tate Truth, Justice, and Reparations in Colombia - Arturo Carrillo Part II: Institutional and Sectoral Peace Initiatives Peace Education in Colombia - Enrique Chaux and Ana M. Velasquez The Colombian Church and Peacebuilding - Mons. Hector Fabio Henao Gaviria Business and Peace in Colombia - Angelika Rettberg Part III: Gender and Ethnic Contributions to Peacebuilding Women and Peacebuilding in Colombia - Catalina Rojas The Power of the Baston - Leslie Wirpsa with David Rothschild and Catalina Garzon Part IV: Local and Regional Peace Initiatives Local Peace Communities - Christopher Mitchell and Sara Ramirez Civil Resistance to War in the Middle Magdalena Valley - Javier Moncayo Negotiating Alternatives to Violence in the Oriente Antioqueno - Mary J. Roldan The View from Montes de Maria - Ricardo Esquivia Ballestas with Barbara Gerlach Negotiating Peace and Visibility in Putumayo - Maria Clemencia Ramirez Part V: The Search for Peace and the International Community The International Community Meets the Local Community - Raul Rosende, Borja Paladini Adell, Juan Chaves, and Gabriel Turriago U.S. Policy and Peace in Colombia - James C. Jones Weathering the Storm - Neil Jeffery The European Union and the Transformation of the Colombian Conflict - Sabine Kurtenbach Norwegian-Supported Peacebuilding - Jennifer Schirmer Part VI: Conclusions Toward an Integrated Framework for Building Peace - Virginia M. Bouvier

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Whose Testimony? Whose Truth? Where are the Armed Actors in the Stoll-Menchu Controversy?

Human Rights Quarterly (2003)

Jennifer Schirmer

A most heated debate has involved David Stoll's (1993) charge that Rigoberta Menchú's testimony was a tissue of lies. He has been accused of missing the essential truths about which Menchú spoke. Stoll's ethnography and the many responses to it are flawed in that they both omit the testimony of the most powerful actor in Guatemala, and don't expand the concept of truth to include that one key actor—the army. This paper examines that testimony and asks: Whose meaning of truth will prevail to serve as the political baseline for Guatemala's future?

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10.1353/hrq.2003.0011

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The Guatemalan military project

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The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights/Power, Ethics and Human Rights: Anthropological Studies of Refugee Research and Action

American Ethnologist (2000)

Jennifer Schirmer

The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights. Leigh Binford. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xix. 263 pp., illustrations, tables, notes, references, index. Power, Ethics and Human Rights: Anthropological Studies of Refugee Research and Action. Ruth M. Krelfeld and Jeffrey L. Macdonald. eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Inc., 1998. vii. 203 pp., index, contributors.

10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.980

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The El Mozote Massacre/Power, Ethics and Human Rights (Book Review).

American Ethnologist (2000)

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Intimidades del proyecto político de los militares en Guatemala

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales eBooks (2001)

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The Looting of Democratic Discourse by the Guatemalan Military: Implications for Human Rights

Routledge eBooks (2019)

Jennifer Schirmer

The emergence of an international human rights network has transformed the discourse and politics of accountability of repressive states in the late twentieth century. Beginning in 1982, the Guatemalan military put in place a unique form of constitutionalist state, fashioning a process of political transition that consolidated the existing military structure institutionally while utilizing the vocabulary of democracy and human rights. By focusing on the Guatemalan military, this chapter provides a case study that illustrates a potentially broader phenomenon under contemporary conditions—one that inevitably affects the viability of strategies for promoting respect for human rights. It analyses the relationship between national security and democracy has profound implications not only for the strategic approaches of the international human rights movement but also for the legal community. The continued reliance on a decontextualized language regarding democracy and human rights allows the meaning of rights to be obscured and leaves open the possibility that democratic discourse will be looted by national security states.

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10.4324/9780429039232-5

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FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH: RESEARCH ON PERPETRATORS IN GUATEMALA

State Crime Journal (2012)

Jennifer Schirmer

In our research on perpetrators, is it sufficient to know what people do, or is it equally critical to know what reasons and justifications they provide in their own words for their actions, in order to try to prevent it happening again? And if it is important to know what people understand about their actions in their own words, how do we go about getting perpetrators to speak candidly about this? Interestingly, when I began my research, number of non-Guatemalan analysts told me not to waste my time, that the officers would feed me a lie to cover up their pathological actions. If we consider the logic behind such advice, it assumes that we already know who these officers are by what they do; that they are evil incarnate. But is it sufficient to look upon these officers as essentially evil? Does the epithet describe what happened? Does it explain the why?

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10.2307/41917769

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Alexander Fattal, Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Photographs, bibliography, index, 304 pp.; hardcover $82.50, paperback $27.50, ebook.

Latin American Politics and Society (2020)

Jennifer Schirmer

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10.1017/lap.2019.73

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