(Human) Security in Central America: A Return to the Past?
After having become one of the principal scenarios of the Cold War, the pacification and democratisation of Central America in the 1990s were forged under the protection of the Esquipulas Process and the birth of the concept of human security. The resulting model of security was founded on the Frame...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
2007-02-01
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| Series: | Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals |
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| Online Access: | http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/4371/44252/file/76_urgell.pdf |
| Summary: | After having become one of the principal scenarios of the Cold War, the pacification and democratisation of Central America in the 1990s were forged under the protection of the Esquipulas Process and the birth of the concept of human security. The resulting model of security was founded on the Framework Treaty on Democratic Security, which incorporated some of the basic postulates of human security and became one of its first institutional implementations. Nevertheless, the performance of this model has been eclipsed and questioned by the evolution of events in Central America (such as the impact of 9-11 on security agendas or the emergence of new forms of violence in the region), which open the door to a new security instrument (the Rapid Reaction Force), generate fears about an eventual regression of Central America in the area of security and raise doubts about the habitual assumptions of human security. |
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| ISSN: | 1133-6595 2013-035X |