Guatemalan Military Project - (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights (Paperback)) by Jennifer Schirmer (Paperback)

About the Book

Successfully combining military, political, and cultural analysis with a serious treatment of legal and human rights considerations, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the conversion from war to peace in Latin America and around the world.

Book Synopsis

Winner of the 1999 PIOOM Human Rights Award ""The Guatemalan Military Project is a remarkable achievement. As any journalist or diplomat who has spent time in Guatemala will attest, no group is more difficult to penetrate than the Guatemalan armed

Review Quotes

"[An] indispensable account of the history of the Guatemalan military's rise to power and of the construction of a thoroughly militarized 'façade democracy'."--Journal of Latin American Studies

"The Guatemalan Military Project is a remarkable achievement. As any journalist or diplomat who has spent time in Guatemala will attest, no group is more difficult to penetrate than the Guatemalan armed forces. Over a period of a decade, Jennifer Schirmer succeeded in getting more than fifty Guatemalan officers to speak with uncustomary candor about their actions."--Larry Rohter, New York Times

About the Author

Jennifer Schirmer is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is also an associate with the Program on Non-Violent Sanctions and Cultural Survival at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard.