Honors Theses
Date of Award
2007
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Croft Institute for International Studies
First Advisor
Oliver Dinius
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
This study compares the historical contexts of the rise of civil wars and their modem trajectories in Colombia and El Salvador. Through an analysis of the successful negotiation of peace in the Salvadoran case via a United Nations peacekeeping mission, it makes conclusions about the relevancy of such an operation for obtaining peace in Colombia. After a brief discussion of the United Nations evolving peacekeeping mandate and recent literature about this type of peace negotiation, this thesis examines each country’s history and its war’s termination (in the case of El Salvador) and transformation (in the case of Colombia). Recent literature supports multi-dimensional peacekeeping operations undertaken by organizations such as the United Nations and uses El Salvador as a model for the successful implementation of such missions. This study concludes that such an outlook is too optimistic and that particular historicalpolitical factors played a larger role in achieving peace in El Salvador which do not exist in Colombia. Furthermore, there are several major obstacles with which the United Nations has never contended but that it would have to confront in developing a peacekeeping mandate for Colombia
Recommended Citation
Bryant, Jessica, "Elusive Peace: A Comparative Analysis of Civil Wars and
Conflict Resolution in El Salvador and Colombia" (2007). Honors Theses. 2299.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2299
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