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Peace-Buildingand Development in Guatemala and Northern Ireland AlsobyCharlesA.Reilly NewPathstoDemocratic DevelopmentinLatinAmerica(editor) InquiryattheGrassroots(co-editedwithWilliamGlade) Religionypolitica enmexico(co-editedwith MartindelaRosa) InPartnershipwithPeople(withEugeneMeehanandTomRamey) Development,PublicPolicyandLocalPoliticsinAuthoritarianBrazil Peace-Building and Development in Guatemala and Northern Ireland Charles A. Reilly palgrave macmillan * PEACE-BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT IN GUATEMALA AND NORTHERN IRELAND Copyright © Charles A. Reilly, 2009. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-61157-3 All rights reserved. First published in 2009 by PALGRAYE MACMILLAN® in the United States-a division of St. Martin's Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-37668-1 ISBN 978-0-230-61788-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230617889 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reilly, Charles A. Peace-building and development in Guatemala and Northern Ireland I Charles A. Reilly. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Peace-building-Guatemala. 2. Peace-building-Northern Ireland. 3. Community development-Guatemala. 4. Community development Northern Ireland. 5. Civil society-Guatemala. 6. Civil society Northern Ireland. 7. Guatemala-History-Civil War, 1960-1996-Peace. 8. Northern Ireland-Politics and government-1994-1. Title. JZ5584.G9R45 2008 303.6'609416-dc22 2008031897 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: January 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Transferred to Digital Printing 2011. Formy wifeMarta,anddaughtersMariandLeni Contents ListofTables ix Acknowledgments xi ListofAbbreviations xiii Introduction:"EasierSigned ThanDone" 1 1 PeaceandItsDelayed Dividends 9 2 Fatigue,Not Fraternityin Guatemala 17 3 Developmentfrom Below? 41 4 ElusiveEquityandSecurityin NorthernIreland 67 5 GettingtoYesin NorthernIreland 91 6 Conclusion:Synergies for Peace 117 Appendices 125 Appendix1 Guatemala:Agreementon aFirmand LastingPeace (December29,1996) 127 Appendix2 TheAgreementon Social andEconomic AspectsandAgrarianSituation(May6, 1996) 133 Appendix3 The GoodFridayAgreement (BelfastAgreement),April 10,1998 161 Appendix4 The AgreementatStAndrews (October13,2006) 191 Bibliography 203 Index 215 Tables 1.1 Guatemalaand NorthernIreland: SelectedComparisons 13 1.2 PeaceAgreements Compared 15 2.1 GuatemalanPoverty 24 4.1 The Belfastor Good FridayAgreement 85 5.1 "Ifthe MajorityofPeopleVotedforaUnitedIreland, I..." 98 6.1 PolicyArenas and Agents 119 Acknowledgments The author and publisher are grateful for permission to reproduce copyright materials from the sources listed below. Every effort has been made tocontactallcopyrightholders,but ifanyhavebeen inadver tentlyomitted,thepublisherswillbepleasedtomakearrangementsatthe earliest opportunity. Wearegrateful • to Robert Bly, Humberto Akabal, and Nineties Press for permis siontoquote EnglishtranslationsofHumberto'spoems "Distance," "Freedom,""TheLastThread,"and "Theft"from thevolumePoems I Brought Down From the Mountain, Nineties Press, Minneapolis, MN,copyright 1999;aswellas • to ElenaM.Reillyforpermissionto printher poem "Postconflict", and • to A.P. Watt Ltd for permission on behalf of Grainne Yeats to quote excerptsfrom W.B.Yeats'poems "TheLakeIsleofInnisfree" (l verse),the"SecondComing"(4verses),and"Easter1916(2verses), from WE. YeatsPoems selectedbySeamus Heaney,London, Faber and Faber,2000; • to Scribner forU.S.English print rights for 1line from Yeats'"The Lake Isle of Inisfree," reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from The Complete Works ofWE.Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, Revised, edited byRichard J. Finneran. NewYork:Scribner, 1997. All rights reserved, and for 4 lines from "The Second Coming," and 2 lines from "Easter 1916," reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from the Complete Works ofWE. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems Revised, edited byRichard J.Finneran.Copyright©1924bythe MacMillan Company. Copyright renewed © 1952byBertha Georgie Yeats.All rights reserved. xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • We acknowledge the Nobel Foundation as source of my citations from Seamus Heaney's Nobel lecture (December 7, 1995);and the anonymous nineteenthcenturyauthorofthe limerick "Theoryand Practice." I appreciated the constructive comments ofan anonymous reviewer of this manuscript. It results from much good fortune and fine friends, including eleven years in Guatemala with Maryknoll and then Peace Corps, a fellowship at Notre Dame University's Joan B. Kroc Institute for International PeaceStudies in 2003,aFulbrightSeniorSpecialistfel lowship to the University ofIreland in Galwayand INCORE in Belfast, NorthernIreland in2004,followedbyaresearch fellowshipatthe JoanB. Kroc Institute for Peaceand Justice at the University ofSan Diegowith inputs from four classes of IPJ masters' students while I "taught" this book. Among many who have shared their insights, specialthanks to John Darby, Alan Smith, Niall O'Dochartaigh, Chris Curtin, Eamon Deane, MartinMelaugh,and Dennis Bradleyfrom Ireland,North and South. Over many years, I have learned much from Guatemalans Carlos Escobar Armas, Ricardo Stein,Frank LaRue,Helen Mack,RenePoitevin, Otilia Luz de Coti, Jose Miguel Gaitan, Rigoberta Menchu, Hermano SantiagoOtero,GustavoPorras,and RodolfoGomez,and especiallyfrom BishopJuan Gerardi and many cohorts ofMaryknoll priests,sisters,and brothers. Finally, my thanks to citizens of the world such as professors AngelikiKanavou,JimO'Brien,John PaulLederach,ScottAppleby,Paulo Frieire and the many poets mentioned in this book whose imagination makesthisworldabetterplace. The volume is dedicated to my wife Marta and daughters Mari and Leni.

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