The Local Dynamics of Violence in Post-Accord Guatemala: Historical legacies, community cleavages and grassroots agency.

和平的概念是一种限制性的消极认识论--没有战争，需要克服。中美洲的内部武装冲突于90年代结束。今天，暴力继续削弱生命、发展和民主。这项研究旨在探讨从基层出现的应对这一暴力流行病的战略。我试图弄清他们与危地马拉和萨尔瓦多不同类型和程度的暴力之间的关系。此外，我打算记录地方努力与国际行为体之间互动的混杂表现。这一证据将增加和平研究在建设和平的混合理论辩论，并将推动努力走向上下文，积极的和平概念化。拟议研究的政策影响是广泛的，因为该项目努力解决为什么雄心勃勃的建设和平努力未能带来和平社会的问题。这些知识将有助于我们了解冲突转化过程及其对受冲突影响人民的影响。

The conceptualisation of peace as a limiting negative epistemology -the absence of war, needs to be overcome. Central America's internal armed conflicts ended in the 90s. Today, violence continues to cripple lives, development and democracy. This research aims to explore the strategies that have emerged from the grassroots to tackle this violence epidemic. I seek to fathom their relationship to the varying types and levels of violence in Guatemala and El Salvador. Further, I intend to document manifestations of hybridity in the interaction between local efforts and international actors. This evidence will add to Peace Studies theoretical debates on hybridity in peacebuilding and will advance efforts driving towards contextual, positive conceptualisations of peace. The policy implications of the proposed research are wide, since the project grapples with questions of why ambitious peacebuilding efforts have failed to render peaceful societies. This knowledge will contribute to our understanding of conflict transformation processes and their impact on conflict-affected peoples.