Peacebuilding in Central America
Central America is a region that, after the peace agreements and democratization processes of the 1990s, has not experienced an armed conflict recognized as such. However, cities and territories in El Salvador, Honduras or Guatemala have for many years topped the global rankings of homicides and violence.
To the security, crises are now added setbacks in democratic governance – with precise authoritarian drifts in Nicaragua or El Salvador -social polarization, growing repression and tendency towards punitiveness, the multiplication of attacks against human rights, the expansion of organized crime and corruption that has never entirely disappeared.
Faced with these crises, it is necessary and urgent to develop a complete diagnosis, increase the visibility of the different problems the region is experiencing, and implement peacebuilding strategies.
Catalan Table for Human Rights and Peace in Central America
At the end of 2023, various Catalan civil society entities with a long history of solidarity with this region launched the creation of the Taula Catalana pels Drets Humans i la Pau a l’Amèrica Central (Catalan Table for Human Rights and Peace in Central America).
This new initiative, which accompanies and supports the ICIP, focuses its work on El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Among the objectives set by the new Table, the following stand out:
Make public opinion in Catalonia known and denounce the violation of human rights in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Articulate and weave human rights and peace proposals in collaboration with our allied Central American organizations.
Make political advocacy at the local, national and regional levels for a more significant commitment in favour of peace and human rights.
Analysis and reflection activities
Exhibition
Through photography and interviews, the exhibition explores the many faces of violence that affect daily life in three Central American countries, known as the Northern Triangle: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Extortions, rapes, kidnappings, murders and disappearances, but also situations of poverty and social exclusion, are part of the daily life of a large part of the population, especially the most vulnerable.
