Abstract

AGUIRRE TOBON, Katherine. Analyzing Violence after the Conflict: Guatemala as a Case of a Sub-national Study. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2014, vol.59, n.220, pp.191-234. ISSN 0185-1918.

This article conceptualizes post-conflict violence by developing its definition, analyzing the factors which can explain it and constructing a typology of eight forms of violence. A central concern of this analysis is that there are different degrees of relation between the violence of conlicts and post-conlict violence given that some forms are fully related, while others are only partially related, and still others are completely independent of armed conflict. While general conditions of peace define post-conflict violence in a weak sense, direct legacies of war define post-conflict violence in a strong sense. The Guatemalan case study allows to identify patterns related to each form of violence at a sub-national level of analysis.

Keywords : conflict; violence; post-conflict violence; conditions of peace; legacies of war; Guatemala.

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