Table Of ContentPeace-Buildingand Development in
Guatemala and Northern Ireland
AlsobyCharlesA.Reilly
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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
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First published in 2009 by
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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
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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
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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
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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.
