Our shopping cart is temporarily out of service. To order, please call our toll free number. 800-326-9180. Thank you.
Peace
Without Justice Obstacles to Building the Rule of Law in El Salvador Margaret Popkin
May 2000 | 6 x 9 inches
Hardback: $52.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-01997-0
Paperback: $23.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-01998-7
Popkin
analyzes the role of international actors, notably the United States
and the United Nations, and the contributions and limitations of international
assistance in efforts to establish accountability and reform the justice
system in El Salvador. The author discusses the essential role of
civil society in attempts to establish accountability and an effective
justice system for all, and looks at the reasons for and the consequences
of the limited role played by Salvadorean civil society. She also
addresses the challenges facing democratic reform efforts in the context
of a postwar crime wave.
Peace Without Justice grew out of Margaret Popkin's extensive
experience working as a human rights advocate in El Salvador during
the armed conflict and interviews with a variety of Salvadorans
and others involved in justice reform and in negotiating and implementing
the peace accords.
Margaret
L. Popkin is Executive Director of the Due Process of Law
Foundation and former Program Director for Africa and Latin America
at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights in Washington,
D.C. She served as Deputy Director of the Human Rights Institute of
the Central American University in San Salvador (1985-92) and has
worked as a consultant to the United Nations and to the Lawyers Committee
on Human Rights (1992-93).
