bachelorThesis
La democratización y la construcción de la paz como procesos interdependientes que hicieron posible la resolución del conflicto interno en Guatemala (años 1983 - 1999)
Autor
Moreno Moreno, Diego Felipe
Institución
Resumen
After almost 30 years of conflict, in 1990 the government and the Guatemalan guerrillas initiated a series of negotiations in the frame of a process of construction of peace that concluded six years later with the signature of the final Agreements. Though the approved commitments included, among other subjects, a series of reforms concerning the transformation of the political system in order to encourage the consolidation of a democratic order, this transformation did not initiate in 1996, but it was promoted years before the raise of the negotiations and in fact, it had an indispensable effect on their beginning, on having generated a propitious context for the construction of the peace. Likewise, the development of both processes influenced the circumstances of the Guatemalan internal conflict.
The following paper analyzes the development of these processes, of the interdependent relation arisen among them and the effects of these connections on the internal conflict in Guatemala, from 1983 to 1999. In order to make this analysis, some theoretical approaches that propose the existence of a link among democracy and peace and their contribution to the prevention and management of internal conflicts, were taken. These approaches argue that the democracy constitutes in a mechanism capable of regulating the internal conflicts through pacific means, as the negotiation or the public debate, and that this democracy needs some minimal conditions of peace and security to develop itself.