Join us for lunch and a conversation with José Madrid. José is a PhD candidate in Black Studies, whose research focuses on race, history, and global political economy. His talk "Enforcing Peace" examines how U.S. and U.N.-brokered reforms in El Salvador’s Chapúltepec Peace Accords (1992) allowed the postwar neoliberal regimes to maintain repressive hierarchies by modernizing and expanding the Salvadoran state’s police infrastructure. Rather than addressing longstanding grievances between El Salvador’s historically marginalized populations and the country’s repressive ruling class, I argue, 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.
Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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