David Holiday
Selected
Publications
"The Struggle for Lasting Reform: Vetting Processes in El Salvador", Ruben Zamora with David Holiday, book chapter in Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies, Social Science Research Council, 2007
“El
Salvador’s ‘Model’ Democracy,” Current History,
February 2005.
"Right Favored as Salvadoran Election Campaign Kicks Off,"
Noticen, Latin America
Data Base, November 20, 2003. (Word file)
"Under the Best of Circumstances: ONUSAL and the Dilemmas of Verification and Institution Building in El Salvador," co‑authored with William Stanley, Peacemaking and Democratization in the Western Hemisphere, Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 1999.
“The contributors include both social scientists and
practitioners with extensive experience in these matters. Yet the result is
mixed. This is a volume of mostly descriptive case studies which, while
providing much useful information, tends to be a bit thin on the kind of
analysis and insight that might have made it a major contribution to our
understanding. The most notable exceptions to this generalization are two fine
chapters on El Salvador, the first by David Holiday and William Stanley on the
U.N. Observer Mission (ONUSAL) and the challenges of verification and
institution building; the second by Montgomery and Ruth Reitan on OAS and
U.N. efforts at electoral observation.”
Donald E. Schulz, Latin American Politics and Society,
Summer 2002 v44 i2 p142(4)
"Peace Mission Strategy and Domestic Actors: United
Nations Mediation, Verification and Institution Building in El Salvador,"
International Peacekeeping, Summer 1997, co-authored
with
"En la Mejor de las
Circunstancias: ONUSAL y los Desafíos de la Verificación y el Fortalecimiento
Institucional en El Salvador, Estudios Centroamericanos, Junio 1997,
UCA, San Salvador, co-authored with William Stanley. (318k)
“Salvador’s Guerrilla Vote,” The Nation, April 14, 1997, Vol. 264, Issue 14. (152k)
"Building the
Peace: Preliminary Lessons from El Salvador," The Journal of
International Affairs, Winter 1992‑1993, co‑authored with
"Broad
Participation, Diffuse Responsibility: Peace Implementation in Guatemala,"
co-authored with
“Most experts
agree that international involvement is necessary to help end civil wars, but
few have looked at how, when, and where the United Nations and outside
governments should do so. Here a team of scholars examines the varied
experiences of the last 20 years to offer practical advice…. A model of rigorous analysis that yields
usable -- if sobering -- knowledge.” G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2003
Book Review of Rachel Sieder (ed.), Guatemala after the Peace Accords (London: University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies,
1998), in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 33, February 2001,
p. 199-201. (81k)
"Guatemala's
Precarious Peace," Current History, February 2000. (48k)
Preface to
“Guatemala: The 1999 General Elections: A Discussion of Electoral Behaviour
in
“Reckoning in
Guatemala,” The Nation, March 22, 1999, Vol. 268, Issue 11. (98k)
“Let the Bishop’s
Death Be Catalyst for Peace,” Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1998.
(95k)
"Guatemala's
Long Road to Peace," Current History, February 1997. (385k)
Mapeo de la Sociedad
Civil de Guatemala, prepared for the Inter-American Development
Bank,
Toward
a New Role for Civil Society in the Democratization of Guatemala, International Centre for Human Rights
and Democratic Development, co‑author with Tania Palencia, July 1996.
(English)
Human Rights
Evaluation of
the Norwegian government’s support for the
Inter-American Institute of
Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica, as part of a team contracted
by the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, August 1999. (Spanish, 1296k)
Unfinished
article entitled “The Politics of UN
Human Rights Missions: The Case of El
Salvador and Guatemala,”
1996-1997. (256k)
Lecture notes from talk
given at New York University on the Guatemalan and Salvadoran Peace
Processes, April 7, 1998. (106k)
For a complete
list of publications, including the many reports I contributed to or wrote
while working for Human Rights Watch and the Washington Office on