In the aftermath of Genocide: Guatemala’s failed reconciliation

This article seeks to understand the factors that have impeded meaningful intergroup reconciliation in Guatemala by drawing on scholarship addressing reconciliation, connections between ideology and violence wider literature Peace Conflict Studies. The interrogates how ideological identitarian frameworks drove narratives precipitated sustained Guatemala’s genocide against indigenous Maya continued shape post-genocide social political landscape. It is instrumentalization of these wake peace process has reconciliation. Specifically, contends a core driver failed been reticence economic elites Guatemalan military accept revision conflict history any challenge elite privilege power. As result, experiences nexus continuity past present, war peace.