Captured Peace

Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Social Science
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Author: Christine J. Wade ISBN: 9780896804913
Publisher: Ohio University Press Publication: January 15, 2016
Imprint: Ohio University Press Language: English
Author: Christine J. Wade
ISBN: 9780896804913
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication: January 15, 2016
Imprint: Ohio University Press
Language: English

El Salvador is widely considered one of the most successful United Nations peacebuilding efforts, but record homicide rates, political polarization, socioeconomic exclusion, and corruption have diminished the quality of peace for many of its citizens. In Captured Peace: Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador, Christine J. Wade adapts the concept of elite capture to expand on the idea of “captured peace,” explaining how local elites commandeered political, social, and economic affairs before war’s end and then used the peace accords to deepen their control in these spheres.

While much scholarship has focused on the role of gangs in Salvadoran unrest, Wade draws on an exhaustive range of sources to demonstrate how day-to-day violence is inextricable from the economic and political dimensions. In this in-depth analysis of postwar politics in El Salvador, she highlights the local actors’ primary role in peacebuilding and demonstrates the political advantage an incumbent partyu2009—u2009in this case, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA)u2009—u2009has throughout the peace process and the consequences of this to the quality of peace that results.

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El Salvador is widely considered one of the most successful United Nations peacebuilding efforts, but record homicide rates, political polarization, socioeconomic exclusion, and corruption have diminished the quality of peace for many of its citizens. In Captured Peace: Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador, Christine J. Wade adapts the concept of elite capture to expand on the idea of “captured peace,” explaining how local elites commandeered political, social, and economic affairs before war’s end and then used the peace accords to deepen their control in these spheres.

While much scholarship has focused on the role of gangs in Salvadoran unrest, Wade draws on an exhaustive range of sources to demonstrate how day-to-day violence is inextricable from the economic and political dimensions. In this in-depth analysis of postwar politics in El Salvador, she highlights the local actors’ primary role in peacebuilding and demonstrates the political advantage an incumbent partyu2009—u2009in this case, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA)u2009—u2009has throughout the peace process and the consequences of this to the quality of peace that results.

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