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Introduction -- Understanding the violence -- Civilian experience of violence in civil war and armed conflict -- The EGP: insurgent strategies in the Ixcan and the Ixil -- Brutality unhinged: the counterinsurgent response -- War in the rebel heartlands -- Displacement and exile -- Conclusions: and history shall not be unwritten

This article interrogates how survivors/victims participate in peacemaking and victim-centred Transitional Justice initiatives, focusing on the role of the victims' delegations during the Santos-FARC/EP peace talks in Colombia (2012-2016). The article presents unique empirical data, drawing on sixty-eight interviews with participants from the talks. The research assesses Colombia's victim-centred approach, arguing that the delegations shaped the content of the peace agreement, influenced historic narratives of victimhood and shaped victim-perpetrator relationships, facilitating victim agency and empowerment. However, wider political and economic prerogatives and dominant TJ tendencies constrained the broader exercise of agency, whilst participants experienced episodes of disempowerment and instrumentalisation.

Voluntad indómita como atributo esencial de la movilización colectiva y de la consolidación de la democracia / Roddy Brett, Freddy Cante -- La lucha por las reformas / Sydney G. Tarrow -- La innovación táctica y el ritmo de la insurgencia / Doug McAdam -- ¿Qué tan "libre" es el colinchado en las guerras civiles? : violencia, insurgencia y el problema de la acción colectiva / Stathis N. Kalyvas, Matthew Adam Kocher -- La desobediencia civil recargada : la insubordinación al ordenamiento desde los modelos de democracia deliberativa / Óscar Mejía Quintana -- Por qué resistencia civil funciona : la lógica estratégica del conflicto no violento / María J. Stephan, Érica Chenoweth -- Habilidades o condiciones : ¿cuáles son los factores determinantes para el éxito o fracaso de la resistencia civil? / Peter Ackerman -- Las revoluciones noviolentes en Oriente Medio / Stephen Zunes -- Donde lo local se encuentra con lo global : justicia ambiental en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México / David V. Carruthers -- Migración y desarrollo : reconciliando perspectivas opuestas / Alejandro Portes -- El legado político del movimiento indígena caucano / Mauricio Archila -- ¿Es relevante la teoría de la acción colectiva para el estudio de la guerra civil? / Jon Elster -- Llevar el laboratorio al campo y el campo al laboratorio / Juan Camilo Cárdenas

A collaborative effort by leading scholars on the history of Guatemala's indigenous political and social movements after the 1996 peace, including sections on both national organizations as well as regional and local political experiences

This volume sheds new light upon the role of victims in the aftermath of violence. Victims are central actors in transitional justice, the politics of memory and conflict resolution, yet the analysis of their mobilisation and political influence in these processes has been neglected. After introducing and explaining the reasons for this limited interest, the book's chapters focus on a range of settings and draw on different disciplines to offer insights into the interrelated themes of victimhood - victims, their individual and collective identities, and their role in and impact upon post-conflict societies - and the politics of victimhood - meaning how victimhood is defined, negotiated and contested, both socially and politically. Because it outlines a stimulating research agenda and challenges the view that victims are passive or apolitical, this interdisciplinary volume is a significant contribution to the literature and will be of interest to scholars from disciplines such as law, anthropology, political science, human rights, international studies, and to practitioners.