Peace without justice : obstacles to building the rule of law in El Salvador / Margaret Popkin.
2000
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Author
Title
Peace without justice : obstacles to building the rule of law in El Salvador / Margaret Popkin.
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Call Number
KGC5404 .P67 2000
Former Call Number
Sal 865 P8126 2000
ISBN
0271019980 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0271019972 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271019972 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 287 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)41488798
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-275) and index.
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Obstacles to building the rule of law in El Salvador
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1
1
The Context for Early Reform Efforts: The Salvadoran Legal System in Historical Perspective
11
Actors in the Criminal Justice System
15
Salvadoran Criminal Procedures: The Quasi-Inquisitorial Model
27
States of Emergency and Political Detentions
35
Entrenched Impunity
41
2
Criminal Justice and Reform Efforts During the War Years
49
U.S. Efforts to Curb Human Rights Abuses: The Big Case Focus
50
The Administration of Justice (AOJ) Project in El Salvador
57
Salvadoran Efforts to Promote Judicial Reform During the War Years
73
Judicial Reform Moves onto the Salvadoran Political Agenda
76
3
Addressing Justice Issues in the Peace Negotiations
81
The Human Rights Accord
82
Confronting Past Impunity in the Peace Negotiations
85
Negotiating Judicial Reform
97
4
The Challenge of Implementing the Agreements to End Impunity
105
Purging the Military
106
The Truth Commission's Work
109
The Truth Commission's "Binding" Recommendations
125
The Commission's Report, the Role of the Courts, and the Amnesty Law
140
The Truth Commission: An Overall Perspective
159
5
Institutionalizing the Safeguards Included in the Peace Accords
165
The National Counsel for the Defense of Human Rights
166
The National Civilian Police (PNC)
175
The Role of Salvadoran Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
192
6
Justice Reform in the Postwar Years
197
The Supreme Court and Judicial Governance
201
The Role of the Attorney General's Office
217
Protecting Individual Rights: Criminal Justice Reform
218
7
Lessons from the Salvadoran Experience: The Role of International Actors and Civil Society in Building the Rule of Law and Establishing Accountability
243
Bibliography
265
Index
277