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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Context for Early Reform Efforts The Salvadoran Legal System in Historical Perspective | 11 |
Actors in the Criminal Justice System | 15 |
The QuasiInquisitorial Model | 27 |
States of Emergency and Political Detentions | 35 |
Entrenched Impunity | 41 |
Criminal Justice and Reform Efforts During the War Years | 49 |
The Big Case Focus | 50 |
The Truth Commissions Work | 109 |
The Truth Commissions Binding Recommendations | 125 |
The Commissions Report the Role of the Courts and the Amnesty Law | 140 |
An Overall Perspective | 159 |
Institutionalizing the Safeguards Included in the Peace Accords | 165 |
The National Counsel for the Defense of Human Rights | 166 |
The National Civilian Police PNC | 175 |
The Role of Salvadoran Nongovernmental Organizations NGOs | 192 |
The Administration of Justice AOJ Project in El Salvador | 57 |
Salvadoran Efforts to Promote Judicial Reform During the War Years | 73 |
Judicial Reform Moves onto the Salvadoran Political Agenda | 76 |
Addressing Justice Issues in the Peace Negotiations | 81 |
The Human Rights Accord | 82 |
Confronting Past Impunity in the Peace Negotiations | 85 |
Negotiating Judicial Reform | 97 |
The Challenge of Implementing the Agreements to End Impunity | 105 |
Purging the Military | 106 |
Justice Reform in the Postwar Years | 197 |
The Supreme Court and Judicial Governance | 201 |
The Role of the Attorney Generals Office | 217 |
Criminal Justice Reform | 218 |
Lessons from the Salvadoran Experience The Role of International Actors and Civil Society in Building the Rule of Law and Establishing Accountabi... | 243 |
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