The scholarly debate on the Guatemalan armed conflict continues to gravitate around the question of how the masses, and especially its indigenous sectors, understood and responded to the conflict between guerrilla and state sectors. This paper argues that an emphasis on passive victimhood and a theoretical fixation on resistance have obscured our…[Read more]

Reflecting on global solidarity has recently taken an innovative turn in a series of case
studies on Chile and Nicaragua. Solidarity is now seen as ‘orchestrated’ by oppositional
movements of the Third World. My research investigates the linkages between Belgian grassroots solidarity
committees and Guatemalan oppositional movements, from the…[Read more]

De derdewereldbeweging beschouwde Centraal-Amerika eind jaren 1970 als navel van de wereld. In Guatemala escaleerde het conflict tot een genocidaire oorlog, uitgevochten tussen regerings- en guerrillagroepen. Ondanks de naar schatting tweehonderdduizend Guatemalteken die het leven lieten in het 36 jaar durende conflict (1960-1996) bleven de…[Read more]

Their battle, our battle? Flemish solidarity with the Guatemalan revolutionary insurgency from a transnational perspective, 1979-1996.

Reflecting on global solidarity recently took an innovative turn in a series of studies on the European mobilisation for Chile and Nicaragua. In focusing on these large-scale campaigns, history has freed the…[Read more]