The Chapultepec Peace Accords In The Salvadoran Civil War

The Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992) witnessed horrendous human rights violations that dismantled the physical and social fabric of Salvadoran society, leaving more than 75,000 dead and more than a one million as refugees. Fought between the authoritarian Salvadoran government and the guerilla Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), the twelve year bloody civil war came to an end with both parties signing the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992, with the assistance of international actors, most notably the United Nations. The Chapultepec Peace Accords represented unimaginable strides in Central American post-cold war conflict negotiations while simultaneously failing to address the root(s) of the civil wars and promote an inclusive post-war society. …show more content…
It is through this reality that I question, “How did the Chapultepec Accords contribute to post-civil war gender mainstreaming of Salvadoran society?” This question engages the gendered dimension that post-war observation and analysis has historically excluded, thus contributing to a growth in International Relations feminist and gender studies.
I hypothesize that the Chapultepec Peace Accords’ complete disregard for women and women’s issue was crucial in the post-war development of Salvadoran feminist organizations and advent of feminist and gender consciousness. In the next section, I will provide a literature that covers a gendered analysis of post-civil war El