 | El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy Subjects: Violence -- El Salvador; El Salvador -- Social conditions; Crime -- El Salvador; El Salvador -- Politics and government -- 1992–; After El Salvador's brutal civil war ended in 1992, crime rates shot up. People began to speak of the peace as "worse than the war." This study examines how narratives of post-conflict violence, told by ordinary people, offered ways of coping with uncertainty during a stunted transition to democracy. Ellen Moodie is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
