Negotiating Peace in El Salvador Civil-military Relations and the Conspiracy to End the War

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Cold War world, this monograph draws on documentary evidence to chronicle almost two years' worth of UN-led peace talks to end the civil war in El Salvador. Presented in moment-to-moment fashion, private notes and interviews with the chief UN, American and Salvadoran negotiators demonstrate that the key to enduring peace was to restructure relations between the country's powerful entrepreneurs and the armed forces.