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

需要克服将和平概念化为一种限制性的消极认识论--没有战争。中美洲的国内武装冲突在90年代结束。今天，暴力继续削弱生命、发展和民主。这项研究旨在探索草根阶层已经出现的应对这一暴力流行病的策略。我试图了解他们与危地马拉和萨尔瓦多不同类型和程度的暴力的关系。此外，我打算记录在当地努力和国际行为者之间的互动中杂合的表现。这一证据将增加《和平研究》关于建设和平中杂合的理论辩论，并将推动推动背景下的、积极的和平概念的努力。拟议研究的政策影响是广泛的，因为该项目解决了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变进程及其对受冲突影响的人民的影响。

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.