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The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research to globally engaged faculty and fellow students. In May's colloquium, Black Studies PhD candidate José Madrid will present on his doctoral research. 

Q&A and discussion will follow; lunch will be provided. 

Enforcing Peace: The Chapúltepec Peace Accords and the Modernization of Policing in Postwar El Salvador 

This talk will examine how U.S. and U.N.-brokered police and military reforms in El Salvador’s Chapúltepec Peace Accords (1992) allowed the postwar neoliberal regimes to maintain repressive racial, social, political, and economic hierarchies by modernizing and expanding the Salvadoran state’s police infrastructure after the end of the civil war (1980-1992). Rather than addressing longstanding grievances between the El Salvador’s historically marginalized populations and the country’s repressive ruling class, José's argues that the peace accords implemented a hyper-carceral model of neoliberal governance and advanced the neoliberal interests of the U.S and Salvadoran ruling class under the guise of “protecting” postwar peace.

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