DH’s Central America-related Publications

(Consultant Reports, Journal Articles, Book Chapters,

Unfinished Papers, Lecture Notes, etc.)

(all saved as PDF files)

CONSULTANT REPORTS

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)

An evaluation of UNDP/Guatemala's NGO institutional strengthening program, in addition to a stocktaking exercise of UNDP's working relationships with NGOs and civil society, United Nations Development Program, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1997. (Spanish, 986k)

Assessment of the state of democratic consolidation and governance in Guatemala, as part of a team of Management Systems International, Washington, DC, contracted by USAID to help them design their future strategy. (English, 237k) For a Spanish version, click here (204k).

Mapeo de la Sociedad Civil de Guatemala, prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1996. (Spanish, 576k)

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)

BOOK CHAPTERS

"Broad Participation, Diffuse Responsibility: Peace Implementation in Guatemala," co-authored with William Stanley, Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements, Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 2002. (347k)

"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.

ARTICLES

"Guatemala's Precarious Peace," Current History, February 2000. (48k)

"Peace Mission Strategy and Domestic Actors: United Nations Mediation, Verification and Institution Building in El Salvador," International Peacekeeping, Summer 1997, co-authored with William Stanley. (851k)

"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)

"Guatemala's Long Road to Peace," Current History, February 1997. (385k)

"Building the Peace: Preliminary Lessons from El Salvador," The Journal of International Affairs, Winter 1992‑1993, co‑authored with William Stanley. (261k)

EDITORIALS

“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)

“Salvador’s Guerrilla Vote,” The Nation, April 14, 1997, Vol. 264, Issue 14. (152k)

MISCELLANEOUS

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)

Preface to “Guatemala: The 1999 General Elections: A Discussion of Electoral Behaviour in Guatemala,” Stener Ekern, Human Rights Report No. 4, 2000, Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, Oslo. (77k)

Lecture notes from talk given at New York University on the Guatemalan and Salvadoran Peace Processes, April 7, 1998. (106k)

Unfinished article entitled “The Politics of UN Human Rights Missions: The Case of El Salvador and Guatemala,” 1996-1997. (256k)

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 Latin America from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, see my updated Curriculum Vitae. (182k)