Companies in Peace Processes : A Guatemalan Case Study

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ISBN: 9783899426908 | 3899426908
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Copyright: 4/30/2008

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The role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent years. Although the private sector is often associated with sustaining conflicts, companies are also assumed to be interested and able to support the prevention, settlement and transformation of violent conflicts.This book explores the role of the private business sector during the civil war and the peace process in Guatemala. It examines and analyzes the corporate positions during this period, giving a better understanding on the potentials and limits of integrating private business actors in conflict transformation.

List of Boxes	p. 7
List of Graphs	p. 7
List of Tables	p. 8
List of Maps	p. 8
List of Acronyms	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
Conceptual Framework
The Business Sector in Conflict Prevention, Conflict Settlement and Peacebuilding: Potentials and Limits of a New Type of Partnership	p. 23
Corporate engagement in conflict management: Background of a new concept	p. 23
Businessmen, business associations and economic elite: A closer look	p. 28
Potential roles for business in conflict management: From conflict prevention to post-conflict peacebuilding	p. 33
Who, how, where and why: A brief analysis of the demand for corporate engagement in conflict management	p. 45
Corporate Costs of War and Peace	p. 51
Costs of war	p. 52
Costs of peace	p. 68
Is there a role for business participation in conflict management? Some conclusions	p. 79
Case Study
The Economic and Social Structure of Guatemala	p. 85
The Guatemalan economy and the dominance of coffee	p. 85
Economic impacts of the war	p. 96
Excursion: The indigenous population in Guatemala	p. 103
Structure and Role of the Private Business Sector in Guatemala	p. 107
The private sector in Guatemala - its characteristics and historic political role	p. 108
Business organizations in Guatemala	p. 113
The Private Business Sector during the Civil War	p. 125
The war begins: The period between 1960 and 1970	p. 126
A violent interlude: Low-intensity warfare as a business climate	p. 131
The second war peak: The business sector between fleeing the country and developing new conflict management strategies	p. 137
The Costs of Peace: Entering the Peace Process	p. 151
Negotiating interests: The business sector during the commencement of the peace process	p. 152
Progress and setback during the government of Serrano	p. 164
The business sector gets more involved: The peace process during the De Leon- administration	p. 177
The private sectors concurrence: The peace process comes to an end	p. 201
Complying with the Peace Accords: The Private Business Sector's Role during Peace Building	p. 213
No war but no success: A brief overview of the implementation of the peace accords	p. 214
Is there a role for the business sector in the post-settlement phase? Some general thoughts	p. 217
Difficult dialogues: Still no climate for peaceful conflict settlement?	p. 219
The constitutional referendum of May 1999	p. 222
Economic dimensions of peace	p. 226
Conclusion and Policy Implications on Business Engagement in Conflict Management	p. 247
The business sector in the Guatemalan peace processes: Findings from the case study	p. 247
Comparison of the Guatemalan case with other peace process	p. 260
Policy implications	p. 269
Appendices	p. 271
Maps	p. 271
Destruction and damage of fincas (1978-1994)	p. 274
Destroyed infrastructure (1981-1995)	p. 276
Bibliography	p. 279
List of Boxes
Violent conflict and peace: Some definitions	p. 24
Definition of conflict management and related expressions	p. 34
Policy Implications	p. 269
List of Graphs
Area planted with coffee and production between 1961 and 2002	p. 88
Area planted with sugar cane and production between 1961 and 2002	p. 89
Area planted in with bananas and production between 1961 and 2002	p. 90
GDP growth rates in Guatemala between 1971 and 2003	p. 93
Gross Domestic Product to constant market prices from 1995 in million USD between 1950 and 2001	p. 93
Percent of killings and disappearances occurring in rural areas by year, 1960-1995	p. 99
Number of visitors for the years 1973-2000	p. 101
Foreign exchange from tourism in million USD from 1973-2000	p. 101
Export value of main traditional product between 1995 and 2002	p. 102
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