A Cold-War Conundrum: British 'Aid' to El Salvador 1970-2009

该研究项目旨在分析英国在萨尔瓦多三个时期干预的变化性质：内战前的20世纪70年代，在不断上升的政治紧张局势和镇压；国家军队和左翼的马解阵线游击队运动之间的内战（1980- 1992）；冲突后（1992-2009）以马解阵线的选举胜利结束。这项研究希望展示政治和人权议程如何影响英国干预的性质，以及这些援助的分配和使用方式。它的目的是建立促使英国参与的因素，探索英国在内战期间的行动，然后是其参与的范围和性质的变化。该研究将审查萨尔瓦多国家侵犯人权的程度和影响，以及英国对该国的干预和援助的相应性质。

This research project aims to analyse the changing nature of British intervention in El Salvador across three periods: the pre-civil war 1970s, during rising political tensions and repression; the civil war (1980-92) between state forces and the left-wing FMLN guerrilla movement; and post-conflict (1992-2009) a period ending in an electoral FMLN victory. The research hopes to show how political and human rights agendas affected the nature of British intervention and the ways in which such aid was distributed and used. It aims to establish the factors that prompted the UK's involvement, to explore Britain's actions during the civil war, and then the changing scope and nature of its involvement. The research will examine the extent and impact of state-perpetrated human rights violations in El Salvador and the corresponding nature of UK intervention in, and aid to, the country.